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To: Dayuhan who wrote (46706)	7/23/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Reagan, in the end, was in charge. Nancy acted as a lightening rod for critics, so that he could be free to maneuver without too much hard feeling, and he had FDRs propensity to play people off of one another, so that he could hear all points of view, and make sure that when he disappointed someone they would tend to blame someone else. Thus, he fostered an aura of intrigue to some extent... ...In the end, Marcos left, without a civil war. Isn't that a good thing?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (46706)	7/23/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Compared with his role in the end of the USSR, no, his position on Marcos doesn't mean much to anybody outside of the Phillipines. <g>

To: Dayuhan who wrote (46706)	7/23/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Just to offer an intelligent counterpoint to CH, yes, Reagan made mistakes in the Philippines. I have no idea whether he was getting good advice from the State Department and the CIA, or whomever, and just ignoring it, or whether he was getting bad advice. The fact that he did some things right doesn't excuse the fact that he did some things wrong, and the fact that he did some things wrong doesn't change the fact that he did some things right. And I am now going to log off and let you guys have a fun time bashing each other intemperately, because no one on earth but me agrees with the above sentence, I think.