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To: milo_morai who wrote (104096)	4/11/2000 11:59:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570641

OT: <Reagan won the cold war and pumped up the economy.> This is a common fallacy. Reagan or no one else won anything. The war was won by jeans, boomboxes, bottles of coke, by cans of instant coffee and tinned beer... To make a simple parallel: if you have two strains of bacteria (say, communus and capitalus) in a Petry dish (Earth globe), they will inevitably confront each other on many fronts, but eventually the fastest growing colony will take over. No matter who presides. This is a simple law of nature. There was not much wrong with communism theoretically (and sometimes practically - e.g. education, healthcare) except one thing - it was growing _slower_ than the other strain. That's it. When the highest commi officials (I guess their kids first) started to realize that their wages are not even worth the lowest US worker's salary, the decay and "perestroika" happen naturally, no matter who presided. Gorbachev did great job by smoothing the transition. American Presidents did their good job by sustaining the free enterprise economy. The rest is more or less noise from far historical perspective. Looks like a solid general theory, isn't it? - Ali