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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (535473)	2/4/2004 5:29:16 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

But the fact is, he didn't win The Cold War any more than Harry Truman, or Churchill or Stalin won WWII. Sure he did, just as they did. We'd still be ducking and covering if it wasn't for Ronnie.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (535473)	2/4/2004 5:35:20 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<chuckle>The fallacy in your worldview is that our weapons became increasingly more destructive and more portable since 1945. That necessitated frequent and profound changes in the way we fought that increasingly desperate godless ideology. In 1980 we reached that fateful crossroad: Jimmy Carter merely wanted us to get over our 'inordinate fear of communism' while Ronald Reagan saw the opportunity to kill Communism once and for all. And you don't think that difference in moral clarity made all the difference in the world? The reason why only winners who 'got it' get to write history is so that the genuine winning patterns of behavior get codified and handed down to the next generations, be those patterns be divine providence or peace through strength or whatever. Losers who never got it tend to dwell too much on the twisted nuances of the trivial.