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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: SilentZ who wrote (421217)10/1/2008 12:09:54 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1575734
 
Z, > Reagan was trying to make peace, at least by his second term. And that's a good thing. But it's not what conservatives credit him with. They say that he amazingly outspent them in weapons into bankruptcy, which also isn't true.

I'd say the arms buildup of his early years helped set the stage for the later peace talks. That along with the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union proves to me that Reagan had a winning strategy.

> You don't actually know what a straw man is...

The only way your argument makes any sense whatsoever is if you think "winning" the Cold War meant using the weapons that was built up during the Reagan years. That's not what Brumar meant. Hence the straw man.

Tenchusatsu
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