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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (421294)	10/2/2008 8:40:33 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) of 1575626

>I'd say the arms buildup of his early years helped set the stage for the later peace talks. Except the facts don't really bear that out. The Soviets were actually reducing arms purchases during those years. The rise of Gorbachev and the weakening of the Soviet empire set the stage for the peace talks. >That along with the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union proves to me that Reagan had a winning strategy. Reagan wasn't trying to "win!" He was trying to make peace. Which was admirable, for sure. Except for some weird "good vs. evil" rhetoric that would creep in every now and then, he handled the Soviet Union well, but not in the way neocons give him credit for. >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. No, he thinks, and you think, that "winning" the Cold War meant standing after the USSR fell. Right? -Z

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