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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (55246)	6/2/2009 4:39:07 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 149317

If that's your point than I agree. Its not reasonable to just assign all the credit to Reagan. At the core it was the people's desire to be free, and the inherent problems with a communist system. Gorbachev also played a big role (even if he role was not what he intended it to be, if your mistakes cause something good to happen, that good thing still happened). You can't even give all the non-Russian, non-Soviet, and non-Eastern European credit to Reagan. Reagan was a key figure in at a key time in the American anti-communist/anti-Soviet Empire effort, and I think he deserves praise for his role in that effort, but other Americans at that time and earlier, and also non-Americans outside the empire, for example Churchill and Thatcher (not that it was just the UK, but those are two people who come to mind played a role. Reagan presented a particular challenge with SDI, a general defense buildup, aggressive diplomacy and speech making, and strong support for the opponents of the Soviet effort in Afghanistan, but at most those things amounted to an important part of the "straw that broke the camels back", not the whole load that was stressing "the camel". But while Reagan's part was not huge, it was important, and even a small part of such a big thing, is itself big.