Considering the cover of this week’s Time magazine, President Bush is in good company on the “cowboy” front. The media and the Democrats used all sorts of “cowboy” combinations to lampoon President Reagan and the conduct of his foreign policy — from nuclear arms control and S.D.I. to Central America. Here are just a few examples I found doing a quick Nexis search of newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad:
In 1988, presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was particularly derisive of Reagan’s America “wandering around the world like a lonesome cowboy.” And his chief foreign policy advisor, Madeleine Albright, also remarked that a Dukakis administration would jettison Reagan’s “lonesome cowboy” approach to the world. Some things never change.
