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To: neolib who wrote (33271)	1/7/2007 5:06:39 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542907

>>As I and others pointed out on various SI boards at the time, Libya was not a success story of Bush policies in the ME. The changes in Libya had much older roots and were largely accomplished already. The media overlooked this history in claiming it as a Bush victory. It never was.<< neolib - I think you're right about that. It's much like the collapse of the Soviet Union, which continues to be touted as Ronald Reagan's crowning achievement. In fact, the Soviet Union collapsed because of it's on internal economic problems more than anything else. It had nothing to do with them spending money in an arms race with us, because they had basically stopped spending on nukes and missiles by the early 80s. They just didn't have the money to spend. I remember attending an economic conference in 1988 where three different experts on the Soviet economy each predicted that the end was near. They were right. - Allen