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To: SilentZ who wrote (421794)	10/2/2008 12:08:16 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575910

Z, > Which is true. He wasn't trying to hasten its collapse. At least not by his second term. He was trying to make peace with it. Which was the right thing to do. No one except the most bloodthirsty hawk thinks that "winning a war" means there also has to be a loser. Reagan was successful in negotiating peace from a position of strength. Whether he intended to hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union or not is irrelevant, but it happened anyway, and we now know that the Soviet Union entered the negotiations from a position of weakness. To me, that's the best way to win a war. Now you can tell me how Reagan really had nothing to do with it, that it was all Gorbachev ... Tenchusatsu