In her famous 1984 speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick, at the time America’s ambassador to the United Nations, characterized the Democrats as the party with the tendency to “blame America first.” The Democrats, according to Kirkpatrick, habitually criticized the foreign policy of the United States so severely that they exonerated the crimes of America’s enemies. “When Marxist dictators shoot their way to power in Central America, the…Democrats don’t blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies of 100 years ago,” Kirkpatrick argued. Her speech was one of the classic expressions …read more
Source: The New Republic
