Read President Reagan’s words about foreign policy, and then study the graph showing defense spending. The truth is that a [nuclear] freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud, for that is merely the illusion of peace. The reality is that we must find peace through strength.

–Ronald Reagan,
March 8, 1983

The passage and graph show that President Reagan’s foreign policy goals were primarily a continuation of
A. isolationism.
B. containment.
C. neutrality.
D. appeasement.