My friend Jack Wheeler — the architect of the Reagan Doctrine and one of TheVanguard.Org’s board members — gave this speech on Friday at our Council for National Policy meeting. CNP has been described by the NEA leadership and by the New York Times as the coordinating body of the entire conservative movement, and its role in enabling and implementing Reagan’s policies in the last decade of the Cold War was immense. Jack’s comments now, as then, could well change the course of the world. They certainly should.

With the Soviet Union, there was simply no way, despite the fantasies of State Department invertebrates, for a negotiated peace. The only way to win the Cold War was to get rid of the Soviet Union - in a word, regime change. And the only way to do this peacefully, without a war, was to get the Soviet Union to collapse from within, to implode upon itself.

So it was with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, so it is today with Iran. But the opportunity to implode Iran, to cause it to collapse from within without a war, without risking the lives of American soldiers in a military attack - this opportunity is being handed to us on a golden platter.

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