Today's Butterfly Pup's Leg-Up Award goes to the critics of US President,Barack Obama's recent overtures to relax tensions with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.I'm just an internet dog and best friend of fictional hoboclown detective,Flash Mc Cool, but I know a duck when I see one! My boss,Flash Mc Cool said that someone once said," If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck..." Flash Mc Cool also told me that those who criticized Obama's move to thaw relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran are all quacked out!Flash says they forgot about the Glasnost period,initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev (former Soviet leader) in the latter part of the 1980s and how then US President, Ronald Reagan seized on Gorbachev's perestroika movement ( re-structuring of the Soviet economy) and on June 12,1987 (at the base of the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall) told Mr. Gorbachev ," ...tear down that wall".The rest is history! Flash also told me about Muammar al-Gaddafi, "who in the mid 1980s was viewed as a major financier of international terrorism. Ronald Reagan (on 4-15-86) ordered bombing raids against Gaddafi in Tripoli and Benghazi. In March,2004 then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,Tony Blair, publicly met with Gaddafi to help thaw the strained relationship with Libya. On May 15,2006 ,the US State Department restored full diplomatic relations with Libya once Gaddafi declared he was abandoning Libya's weapons of mass destruction programs. Soon, the US State Department removed Libya from the list of nations supporting terrorism.In September,2008 , then US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, met with Gaddafi, as no US Secretary of State had met with Gaddafi since 1953. Again, the rest is history." I keep looking for history but I'm just a dog and cannot find it. I wonder if my boss will put some History in a can for me and feed it to me! It might go well with duck sauce!
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