| Bill, Actually, I like the guy. He was a thoroughly personable fella and told a great joke. He was better than The Old Ranger on "Death Valley Days" (though out of place on GE Theater, which had a bit too much class for him) and he was the best pitchman Chesterfield Cigarettes ever had ("This Christmas, Jane and I are giving Chesterfields to all of our friends"). I just find it funny that Neocons can ignore The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, Nato, SEATO, OAS, the creation of the CIA, the creation of my old employer, the NSA, the Korean War, the Berlin Airlift, the movement of troops into Iran to prevent a Soviet Invasion, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Nixon's China Policy, Kennedy and Nixon's warnings on Quemoy and Matsu, etc., and give all the credit for winning the cold war to one man. I think Reagan's reckless defense spending and conviction to destroy "the evil empire" certainly deserve a lot of kudos in the crusade that was the cold war. But the fact is, he didn't win The Cold War any more than Harry Truman, or Churchill or Stalin won WWII. |
