Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was "always unambiguous about terrorism" and would have immediately moved to destroy the Islamic State, her biographer Charles Moore told
Newsmax TV Thursday.
"She wanted to define it," Moore told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth. "She knew what it was when she saw it — and she didn't like it.
"She was, probably, the last major Western leader to be ready to confront it rather than appease it."
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Moore's new book is
"Margaret Thatcher At Her Zenith: In London, Washington, and Moscow," the second volume of his authorized biography of the Iron Lady.
His first book, "Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands," won high praise from critics.
The former prime minister, who died in 2013 at age 87, asked Moore to write the book — on one condition.
"She should not be allowed to read the book and it should not appear in her lifetime," he told Hayworth. "She did that because otherwise everyone would think she was trying to control it and it would have no historical value.
"She really stuck by that rule," Moore said, later adding: "Though she was quite a private person, she was also fundamentally an honest person — so she would tell you the way she saw it."
Her longstanding bond with former President Ronald Reagan was forged in adversity, amid the breakdown of the Soviet Union.
It "grew into something very powerful as an alliance of two like-minded people with very different temperaments," Moore said. "That meant they could have big disagreements, but they always maintained trust and they had direction.
"They went from beginning to end, from the height of the Cold War to victory in the Cold War, and that was a great tribute to the way they could work together."
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