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Originally posted by rcecale
I believe they call that "Peace through superior fire power."
Quite an effective approach, as was demonstrated by the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Was it the only cause of the collapse? Probably not. Was it instrumental? Better believe it, bud!
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At the time of Reagan's saber rattling towards the U.S.S.R. the media (and notable liberal naysayers) made little mention of the former Communist dictatorship being on shaky ground. If fact, Reagan was called a "warmonger," "dangerous," and "simple-minded"...For walking away from Reykjavik he was said to have "fumbled," it was a "debacle," and a "colossal blunder."
Reykjavik saw a defiant Reagan ignore Gorbachev and media negativists, trying to prevent SDI...this cost Communism big-time.
-- Walter Mondale said Reagan's policy toward thee Soviets put the world in imminent danger.
-- Strob Talbot (Clinton's deputy secretary of state) said, after Reagan assumed office, "The U.S. most learn to live with parity. Whether America likes it or not, Leonid Breshnev is quite correct in describing any U.S. quest for nuclear supremacy as misguided. The U.S. cannot get there from here -- not against
a Soviet Union that is ready and able to match America in any kind of arms race."
But I thought they they were crumbling?
-- Strob Talbot also said it was, "wishful thinking to predict that international Communism some day will either self-destruct or so exhaust itself in internecine conflict that other nations will no longer be threatened."
-- Strob Talbot also said, "The Soviet Union still has plenty of resources" and they were "well desiged to be impervious to the consequences of the economic failure."
-- 35 Soviet experts from Harvard, Columbia and Cornell (and others) said, "The Soviet Union is going to remain a stable state, with a very stable, conservative, immobile government...
We don't see any collapse or weakening of the Soviet System."
Looks like experts and Clinton pros and the media all thought Reagan was wrong, the Soviet Communists were strong, and standing up to them was dangerous.
Reagan was right...Democrats and liberals were wrong...again.