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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (2718)	11/19/2000 6:18:54 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

Cyberken, With all due respect, I think you misunderstood the point. I think the Nixon's foreign policy was quite good; however I would be a little reluctant to put it on par with Winston Churchill and WWII. [And I'll bet you the Brit's that live next door to me would agree <s>.]. To the negative side of Nixon, there's a lot of overblown rhetoric re: the Watergate stuff as a burglary; the big abuse that Nixon was guilty of was the use of Intelligence Agencies to monitor his enemies....there is Justice Department oversight within the Intelligence Agencies even today because of Nixon's abuses. There are many things that Nixon did that fall in between. An interesting discussion re: Churchill is his willingness to let a populated English city be bombed rather than take the very remote risk that the Germans might conclude that Enigma had been broken had the Brits provided an air defense of the city. Just because I lean to the left, doesn't mean I'm unable or unwilling to acknowledge a positive aspect of someone on the right. But I don't necessarily give Reagan the credit for "winning" the cold war. IMO, no one won the cold war, the Soviets lost the cold war. Virtually every respected economist [liberals and conservatives] acknowledged that the Soviet economic system was a failure and doomed to collapse. The only surprise was that it lasted as long as it did. It was on the verge of collapse before Reagan ever took office. One could make a small argument that increased DoD spending was met with increased Soviet suspending and could have accelerated the process; but in the scheme of things it didn't matter much. The Soviet system was doomed to collapse. If the North Koreans went capitalist tomorrow [unlikely] I wouldn't give credit to the Clinton Administration, or South Korea for that matter. North Korea is going to lose because they have a failed economic system. Regards, jttmab