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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (545045)	1/20/2010 3:10:36 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575653

Oh my God. Now I know that you must not be very old. That is not what happened. That is what the revisionist history GOP will tell you today, but I lived through that period of time and I loved Reagan at the time and still do. He was a great President. But he did not engage in a military spending spree precisely to topple the Soviet economy. Rather, we were a very fearful nation at that time. All of us grew up feeling like nuclear war was imminent. Under that specter, Reagan was in a nuclear arms race and he pulled out all the stops to develop enough of them under the strategy coined as M.A.D. at that time...Mutually Assured Destruction. The thinking was to more along the lines of making nuclear war unthinkable. There was very little discussion about the specific intent to destroy the Soviet economy by outspending it. That was a nice, but unintended consequence of the nuclear arms race, that ultimately undid the Soviets. Anyway, thanks for cluing me in to your real age. No one who actually lived through that time would have made a claim like you just did.