The General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the banning of all weapons in outer space, Star Wars—it went through 154 to 1, the U.S. was the 1. They passed a resolution against the development of new weapons of mass destruction; it was 135 to 1. They passed one calling for a nuclear test freeze; it was 137 to 3, the United States picked up England and France on that one. And so it went. Do you think any of that made the newspapers in the United States? No, because that’s just the wrong story.49 The story is “Reagan the Peacemaker,” not “The United States is alone in the world, isolated
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