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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (396144)	4/22/2003 1:08:06 AM
From: Mark Konrad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Thank you for acknowledging President Reagan's success in ending the Cold War. The military (and its buildup) are one of the few things expressly authorized by the Constitution. I have no problem with that. Half of Reagan's cabinet were indicted? I don't think so but I'm ready to be proven wrong. Please name them--MK--

To: American Spirit who wrote (396144)	4/22/2003 2:51:09 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Do you know how incoherent you sound repeating the same tired rationalization that the Global Left has used to obscure the fact that they were simply wrong about the Cold War? Look at you! On one hand you say that Reagan couldn't have won it without Gorbachev, but then on the other hand you regret the fact that "we had to pay for the military build-up and S&L debacle later." Make up your mind and cut off one hand. Common sense tells you that Reagan's diplomacy was very effective because it was backed up by very credible use of military force. The military force was very credible because it was backed by a coalition led by the world's largest economy. The lack of a credible military force would have encouraged the USSR to continue their expansionary policies in order to finance their crumbling command and control economy. Keep in mind that by the time Reagan entered into office, Vietnam, Watergate and the indecisive Carter administration had already created a perception in the USSR that they could actually expand their footprint! Think about it! Great hot wars are often started by this kind of miscalculation. BTW, the S&L debacle had bipartisan fingerprints all over it because each congressman naturally wanted an S&L headquarter or branch in their districts. Remember the Keating 5? The funny thing is that if you're going to blame Reagan/Bush for the S&L debacle then why don't you give them credit for the clean-up? Anyway, what is really entertaining about useful idiots like you is that your individual and collective utopias usually contemplate a permanent peace that doesn't have to be earned. What do you dopeheads do while waiting for this, this entitlement? Visualize world peace? Fortunately for us, after the lost years of the lyin' Clintons, we now have a new structural majority a-forming to reorganize a world NOT built on the self-induglent illusion of a permanent peace, a peace that doesn't even have to be earned, but built instead on the cold reality of a series earned, a series with increasingly shorter war cycles and increasingly longer peaceful cycles. Not surprisingly, most of the members of this structural majority are the same folks who won the Cold War which lasted more than 4 decades. Not surprisingly, the most resolute and steadfast members of this structural majority are the folks who quietly believe that world peace is ultimately a gift from a force greater than ourselves. Isn't that really the most courageous stance that an imperfect race can take, you self-indulgent fool?