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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (545106)1/20/2010 7:41:24 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1576206
 
But he did not engage in a military spending spree precisely to topple the Soviet economy. Rather, we were a very fearful nation at that time. All of us grew up feeling like nuclear war was imminent. Under that specter, Reagan was in a nuclear arms race and he pulled out all the stops to develop enough of them under the strategy coined as M.A.D. at that time...Mutually Assured Destruction.

Your ignorance of this subject is nothing short of staggering.

Reagan opposed MAD with every fiber of his being (MAD was a McNamara initiative). WTF do you think SDI was about?

You obviously have NO CLUE what Reagan was doing. He criticized MAD as insane early in his presidency. You remember: "Nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought"?

What do you think he was talking about when he said, "Would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them?"? This is diametric opposition to the concept of MAD.

You obviously do not understand even the most fundamental precepts of Reagan's antinuclear/Cold War policy. The Democrats top issue prior to Reagan was nuclear non-proliferation, and he showed that you end it, not with complacency, or MAD, but with overwhelming power.

Your comments reflect an ignorance that I could understand coming from a tejek. But you claim to know something about the subject, and it is clearly you are utterly clueless.
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