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BigDyl said:True Story, he single handidly ended communism, although it was destined to fail at around the same time period anyways.
DOMS said:Incorrect. It wasn't destined to fail. Reagan pitted the US' economic existence against that of the USSR. They lost.
BigDyl said:
MyK said:
bigss75 said:I enjoy this thread throughlly.
bigss75 said:Its also said that a decent band would open their mouths about their political views. I just can't stand singers and actors run their mouth about their political stances.
maniclion said:The Reagan Years aka The Generation of Swine.
Decker said:Reagan could field questions from critics, unlike the current WH occupant. His economic policies were disastrous--trickle down horseshit. His domestic policy was damaging--deregulation of any industry he could--our children will still be paying for the S&L scandal which his deregulation wrought; remember the EPA and HUD scandals. His foreign policies weren't much better--invading grenada or iran contra.
Would someone please explain to me how Reagan won the cold war?
Russia still has 1000s of ICBMs pointed at the US today. What did he win?
Other than that, he was a fine president.
bigss75 said:He did end communism and his Reaganomics helped economic growth of 3.2% average
I think Russia just surrendered its dreams of empire--it was not realistic. The fall was the culmination of legal reforms, internal decay corruption and decades of US cold war policy. It is an overstatement to attribute even the acceleration of the fall of the Soviet Union to Reagan's out of control defense spending. Reagan was doing what all of his predecessors back to Truman did--standard US cold war policy (confrontation v. conciliation as a matter of policy in dealing w/ the Soviets is just a semantic difference to me). He played the roll more fiercely though as an anti-communist president but the seeds of the Soviets demise were sewn years earlier.Mr_Snafu said:I think he accelerated the demise of communism.
The Star Wars program was a complete hoax but the Soviets fell for it.
Also, the increase in military spending outdid the Soviets. The USSR was spending so much on military that it was hurting their economy, which already was indept, and doomed to fail.