Re: A Reagan quote

From: quibbler (quibbler247_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:06:49 -0600

In article <221ec0timc5l4khiebi66ogbbtiuc0nol7@4ax.com>,
hermperez@worldnet.att.net says...
> well, better safe than sorry..
> it would have been bad news to go into
> armageddon

There is no reason to think that there ever will be a battle of
armageddon.

> with the sorry state tha nation's armed forces

We had more than sufficient forces to deter the soviets from invading.
We certainly had sufficient nuclear and chemical/biological stockpiles.

> where in.. and
> look what happened.. Peace thru Strength worked again.

Absolutely false. The soviets were looking for peace before reagan's
idiotic and irrational spending splurges even started in earnest. Most
historians acknowledge that Reagan's multi-trillion dollar binges had no
effect upon the collapse of the soviet economy as the tired old right
wing myth claims. You can't bankrupt a communist state that
fundamentally doesn't care about money. There was certainly no
guarantee that the soviets wouldn't just try to go out with a bang and
first strike us if they thought they were going down. Peace through
strength is bull***, since often times the underdog doesn't care as
much about preserving his own life as the more powerful guy.

 
> It really worked!, and even reaganomics worked spectacularly well..the old
> Gipper was right after all.

Reagan was pretty much never right about a single goddamn thing in his
life. His foreign policy was a complete failure and absolutely asinine.
It didn't work. The soviet union did not fall when reagan was
president. For 40 years american presidents struggled with the soviets
during the cold war and it is ridiculous to give all the credit to
reagan. 

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