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To: tejek who wrote (707303)	4/4/2013 1:21:09 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583682

>> And you know this how? It is difficult to have any kind of serious conversation with you, particularly about this topic, because you are just so ignorant. I understand you don't read history, haven't read a book in more than ten years, but how can anyone else have any meaningful discussion with you when you don't have a clue what happened and wouldn't acknowledge it if you did? Anyone remotely familiar with Reagan's history knows that his handling of the USSR was totally in accordance with principles he had established 20 years earlier. The principal variations were that (a) the window of opportunity of collapsing the USSR maximized during Reagan's administration, which might have been just luck, and (b) Star Wars had enough credibility at the time for Gorbachev to believe it was going to happen. It was good that Gorbachev was running the USSR at the time, because the older leaders would not have had the ability to walk so easily away from policy THEY had set for decades. But Reagan forced his hand then gave him the opportunity. Reagan's greatness in dealing with the USSR (and Gorbachev himself has referred to Reagan as a great president, uniquely suited to the task -- he has stated on multiple occasions he didn't believe any other American president could have accomplished what Reagan did) -- is undoubtedly the most important act of presidential leadership after WWII. Now, I'm not going to explain this shit to you any further. If you want to actually learn something, go dig it out of the history books like I did.