A Good Idea From Frum
David Limbaugh ·
Nov 23, 2010 at 8:37am
I often strongly disagree with David Frum, but I appreciate his idea that a suitable way to honor Ronald Reagan in commemoration of his 100th birthday anniversary would be "a museum in Washington dedicated to the victims of communism."
Not only was the struggle against Communism one of Reagan's signature causes and achievements, but there has been far too little emphasis in our culture on the atrocities and other horrors of this wicked ideology. The left today still pines after Communism, after all, and that is somehow acceptable. Perish the thought.
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Re: A Good Idea From Frum
This is indeed an excellent idea. And what better place to put the museum than in Washington D.C., where the temptation toward communism is always a lurking threat.
Re: A Good Idea From Frum
What a beautiful idea. Apparently Frum wants the museum to take its cues from the Holocaust museum, which would indeed be very moving. Frum writes:
Aug '10
Re: A Good Idea From Frum
I know the perfect place for it: The United States Institute of Peace, a dazzling, brand spanking new building on Constitution Ave., right next to the Lincoln Memorial. Heaven knows what they could do better than to honor Ronald Reagan; I mean other than their projects Gender and Peacebuilding, and Youth and Peacebuilding. Seriously.
http://www.usip.org/
Re: A Good Idea From Frum
"A Good Idea From David Frum"? Your headline stopped me cold, David. But you know what? It is a good idea.
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Peter: I must confess. I had to think long and hard on how to word that headline. I considered, "Finally, I Agree with David Frum," and others. I'm glad to hear that you agree that it's a good idea, since you are so attuned to the Reagan legacy and what would be appropriate.
Nov '10
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Growin up in the 80's, I had never realized how actively the Reagan administration worked to undermine communism until I read Peter Schweizer's book Victory. What really comes through is the moral clarity with which President Reagan and Bill Casey prosecuted the campaign against communism. My employer has operations in Poland and I remember during a training session one of the young ladies from Poland conveying, very movingly, how grateful she was for how her country had changed in the last twenty years and how much more opportunity there was for women there now. As the Nobel committee never saw fit to award President Reagan with a much-deserved Peace Prize, this museum seems more than appropriate and long overdue.
Aug '10
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This is indeed a terrific idea. It might help counter the widespread ignorance of Communist crimes and the pernicious idea that the Communism is a "good idea that just went bad in practice." President Obama could stand to learn a thing or two about the subject. Anyone recall the single dumbest sentence ever uttered by our President? From his speech in Berlin in July, 2008: "People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one." I wonder what the Poles, Czechs, etc. thought about that one.
May '10
Re: A Good Idea From Frum
I agree that this is a good idea.
Can I also observe that David Limbaugh and David Frum agree on all sorts of things? Frum is persona non grata because he criticizes the right in a way that ruffles the feathers of movement conservatives. Fine. Disagreements about some of the remarks he makes are healthy.
But let's not pretend that it's a novelty to see him advance a single good idea. He may not overlap 100 percent with the conservative movement anymore, but he probably overlaps about 70 percent.
Finally, I very much think that the left underestimates the evils of Communism. Michael Moynihan writes great stuff on this subject. But it seems ridiculous to me to argue that the left "still pines after Communism." I know it was a throwaway line, but the habit of caricaturing liberals generally harms the right's ability to identify their worst ideas and push back against them.
May '10
Re: A Good Idea From Frum
What an absolutely brilliant idea.