Berlin 1989: "Walls Can Fall"

This short piece by Darrell Issa, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is a reminder of the awful price paid by those who lived behind the Iron Curtain in tyranny's shadow and the threat to freedom that Marxist ideology poses to this day.

Issa is quick to single out Ronald Reagan as the indispensable figure without whom the events of 20 years ago might not have transpired. It was Reagan who refused to weaken our defenses or compromise our security that put the final nail in the rotten Soviet Communist coffin. "How different the world's course might have been if Jimmy Carter won reelection in 1980," wonders Issa.

Now that Barack Obama is serving Jimmy Carter's second term three decades later, we may be about to find out.