If you're old enough to remember, come back with me to the 1980s and the Reagan Administration. There was this concept called arms control that liberals of that era were obsessed with, and they were very unhappy with Ronald Reagan because he a) considered the Soviet Union an enemy; b) didn't have enough talks with them in pursuit of arms control deals (Reagan mostly thought the concept was foolhardy, although he had his moments); and c) didn't put much emphasis on cultural exchanges and other such things designed to "promote understanding" or whatever.
