The excerpt below is from a 1983 speech by president ronald reagan: so, i urge you to speak out against those who would place the united states in a position of military and moral inferiority so, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, i urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.

based on this excerpt, which of the following conclusions can be drawn about president reagan's foreign policy?

a.)he wanted to rid communist countries of their nuclear weapons while continuing to build up the united states' military power.

b.)he called for religious leaders to travel to foreign countries to spread a message of peace and nonviolence to communist countries.

c.)he believed the united states should improve its weapons system to prove itself a threat to communist countries like the soviet union.

d.)he argued that government leaders should support his efforts to rid all the world's countries of nuclear weapons.