Who Am I? The First Installment

Let’s play a game and have some fun during these dark times.

I am going to write a narrative based on two real political figures, and the assignment for you guys is to identify who they are. The first one to correctly identify the players will win the Grand Prize. I don’t know what the prize is, but I can assure you that it will have little to no monetary value. The satisfaction will lie in being able to proudly carry the moniker, Winner of the first installment of “Cyclone’s Who Am I” award. I will be as careful as possible to not make it obvious who these people are, so some things in quotation marks may be changed to a degree. I will not change the meaning of what was conveyed. As I have never tried anything like this before, I am going to keep it very short. I’m unsure how much information to divulge during Part 1, so we’ll see if it is enough. Warning: there may be a trick or two involved, so be creative in your thinking. Just consider it a pop quiz. Here we go.

Who Am I

We once had a President who had dreams for helping create a peaceful world. His idea was to spread democracy across the globe. He, like all Presidents, wanted a very strong national defense. He considered himself a moral man, and supported Democratic Leaders around the world. His theory was that we should be strong in all elements, military and otherwise. His position was that we should have a country so strong that we would never have to prove to the world that we were strong.

Unfortunately, with the partisan political situation that existed at the time, he had an adversary from the other party. He delighted in opposing every policy that the President endorsed. At one point, this adversary said the following: (again, although in quotations, this is paraphrased to a degree)

“The notion that we can impose liberalization and democratization on other countries is absurd. It is impossible to implement the idea of the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances. Democracy depends on complex social, cultural, and economic conditions….and take decades if not centuries.” He then praised “traditional authoritarian dictatorships in Chile, the Philippines and Nicaragua, among others. He later went to Chile and Argentina to assure their leaders that our President would no longer intrude on their internal human rights issues, and that they could operate without fear of interference from the American government.

Okay, that’s all you get. Just post your answers in the normal fashion. You can answer as many times as you wish. The first one who posts the correct answer gets the Prize. Should no one correctly identify the two people involved, I will give further information until someone does. Then, I will do a piece on why I thought of this, and go much more in depth as to why this is important. Good luck.

Cyclone