[Leica] Remembering the Reagan years

[gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)]

> Interestingly, as it gets repeated by every eulogy, that's 
> completely 
> false. One article I saw noted that American confidence in the 
> government peaked a little at '84-6 but was back to the same 
> levels 
> post Iran-Contra as when he had become President. So he had no 
> real 
> effect on American confidence.

America's confidence problem had nothinng to do with "confidence in 
government" but rather confidence in themselves. 

> 
> (And any confidence-destroyers list needs to include a certain GOP 
> boondoggle.)
> 
> > He ended the cold war, destroyed the Warsaw Pact and brought 
> eastern 
> > Europe back into the western world. In process he never had to 
> fire a 
> > shot to do so. (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, 
> Ford and 
> > Carter couldn't do it.)
> Oh, dear God. Where to start with that? If you want to give anyone 
> in 
> the US credit, give it to his Secretary of State for edging out 
> the 
> hawks and getting Ray-gun to actually talk to Moscow instead of 
> threatening. But you should give most of the credit to Gorby, the 
> failing Soviet system and an equal measure to every Cold War 
> President.
> > Too many world leaders are politicians first and statesman never.
> > Regards,
> > Greg
> 
> Like Reagan.

Sorry, Reagan simply outspent the Soviets and bankrupted them in the 
process. The planned Star War System was the final nail in the Soviet 
Union's coffin.

Regards,

Greg
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>