President Obama always panders to foreign audiences — that’s a given. Apologizing for America around the world has become standard operating procedure.

However, on his recent trip to Moscow his pandering went a step further. Obama attempted to rewrite cold war history by downplaying America’s role in it.

In today’s WSJ, Liz Cheney sets the record straight on the dishonest history lesson Obama gave to the Russians:

Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: "The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful."

The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not "competition in astrophysics and athletics." It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet "sphere of influence" was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.

In other Liz Cheney news, she told the Washington Times that she’s open to running for office.

President Obama addressed the graduating class at the New Economic School in Moscow:

As usual, Obama panders to his foreign audience by giving a watered down version of history that downplays America’s role.