Reagan’s Foreign Policy Legacy

President Reagan longed to see the slaves of communism freed, and knew the best way to free them was simple: “We win, they lose.” It was this blunt approach to the Cold War which more than ruffled the foreign-policy establishment’s feathers. And Reagan set the tone for his Cold War policy early on, angering nearly everyone but those enslaved behind the Iron Curtain when he called the Soviet Union the “evil empire.”