Phyllis Schlafly's eulogy for Jesse Helms

From the Eagle Forum website:

Helms called his Platform "morality in foreign policy." It promised "a realistic assessment of the Communist challenge" and bluntly criticized any giveaway of the Panama Canal or unilateral concessions to the Soviet Union. ...
Jesse Helms became conservatism's conscience at the helm of U.S. foreign policy for the rest of his public life. During the Reagan years, Helms was the Senate leader in supporting our anti-Communist allies in other countries.

During the dismal Clinton years, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Helms was Horatio on the Bridge, valiantly defending America against the busybody international bureaucrats who want to curtail our sovereignty. Helms saw to it that most of the disastrous United Nations treaties never reached the Senate floor or were defeated, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Child, the UN Treaty on Women, the UN Global Warming Treaty, and the UN Biodiversity Treaty.

Helms fought foreign aid to Communist countries, stopped extravagant handouts to the United Nations, and defeated Bill Clinton's worst diplomatic appointments.
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