Berlin Wall

Dear Vice-President Pence,

Just caught your speech in Munich. First, let me congratulate you on being a better speech giver than your boss. But let's talk about a point you made. You went into a list of leaders that you claimed brought down the Berlin Wall. Among them were Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Now Vice President Pence, they were a definite part of the wall coming down. But it took over 40 years to bring it down and several different administrations from different political parties. In fact several countries were involved in this issue. Just because you wish to remember Reagan's line about tearing down the wall doesn't that mean that it was the only thing that brought it down.

The real people that brought down the Berlin Wall were not the leaders but the people that stood and said no more. The people that escaped from the wall and said this is what is happening. The people, on that fateful night, that went up to the wall with chisels and hammers and started tearing it down. Those were the real people who tore down the Berlin Wall, not some ideologically pure conservative leadership.

Make no mistake, leadership was an important part of this. But Reagan and Thatcher didn't make the policy that brought down the wall. They just continued it. The people that came up with the policy were Eisenhower and Kennedy. So Mr. Vice President, I would advise you to get your facts straight. Or you'll end up looking like your boss.

Signed,
An Informed Citizen.