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Politics : OKAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT, SEX AND POLITICS!!!
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (185)10/7/1996 3:03:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 351
 
There's just one Hubbell, he just fills a bunch of roles. His current role is jailbird.
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush International Criminals(?). Sounds more like an indictment of U.S. foreign policy than a valid assessment of this disparate crew. The British ambassador compared the Kennedys entering Washington to the Borgias taking over an Italian city-state. Johnson saddled the US with the enormous welfare state that we now groan under. Both of these worthies walked us into the Viet Nam quagmire with the best of intentions, defending the free world from communist expansion. Nixon poured fuel on Johnson's welfare state fire, which often goes overlooked, and continued the indecisive strategy in Viet Nam. I'd also credit Johnson and Nixon with creating the spending policies that resulted in the raging inflation of the '70s. You left off Ford and Carter. These two just get no respect. The Reagan "revolution" is probably more rhetoric than reality. Domestic spending was virtually unchanged; it just didn't grow as fast as under Democrat regimes. The defense build-up reversed the decline of the '70s, and broke the back of the Soviet Union trying to keep up. It also ran up the U.S. national debt by a factor of 3. Bush was the last of the Cold War presidents, since the USSR went tusks-up on his watch. Was the Gulf War necessary? I don't know. But I think you are completely backwards on your analysis of the effect on oil prices. Oil prices went up when Iraq took over Kuwait. They went down dramatically the day that America started the shooting. The facts are at odds with what you perceive. Clinton has the opportunity to free America from the financial burden it has incurred by being a global military power since the end of WWII. He's not doing that, and instead he is spreading us out into a multitude of hot spots. American foreign policy just lurches on, reacting to the crisis of the week as broadcast by CNN.
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