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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (313846)12/4/2006 4:24:30 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 1575927
 
"It helped lead them to think that force does the trick."

Ronnie Raygun really didn't use any force anywhere. He withdrew from Lebanon. HIS big "invasion" was Grenada! He traded arms for hostages in Iran, and provided the Contras with guns and the Afghanis with stinger missiles to shoot down Soviet helicopters. He may have contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union by getting them to believe his ridiculous Star Wars program had a chance of success.

I'd say the neocons took the wrong lesson from Raygun, if they thought force was the ticket. Raygun probably learned that wasn't a winner in the B war movies he played in. The chimp Nero couldn't even match THAT level of "experience".
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