To: tejek who wrote (130076 ) 12/24/2000 12:35:40 PM From: TimF Read Replies (1) | Respond to 1 - You didn't answer my question. The obvious reason for this is that there is no deployed active anti balistic missile system in the US.One nation fell under the onslaught of huge defense budgets and we may be the second if this reactionary call for armaments is met. "Reagan launched a military buildup premised on the belief that the Soviet Union was too economically vulnerable to compete in an accelerated arms race and would come to the bargaining table if pressured by the West. He preached a message of freedom that he believed would energize the people of Eastern Europe and penetrate within the Soviet Union itself. Many members of the political establishment, including some leading Republicans, thought these views were at best naive. They were also alarmed by Reagan's provocative comments about communism, particularly his resonant description of the Soviet Union as an "evil empire." But times changed. The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989; by the end of 1991 most nations behind the former Iron Curtain were masters of their destiny, and the Soviet Union, as Reagan had foreseen, was left on the scrapheap of history."
