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2015-10-12 Home Front: WoT

A Reagan Doctrine for the Twenty-First Century

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Personally, I think that USA's era as "sole superpower" was a disaster---both foreign & domestic. The sooner we're back to bi-polar world (and these arrogant degenerates of EU are taught their place) the better.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-12 02:58|| 2015-10-12 02:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The USSR was moribund by 1980 but the Reagan era defense buildup pushed the end of the regime much faster than it would have happened in the absence of the buildup.

The Reagan defense buildup is also something which got amoral guys who cared about a guaranteed paycheck more than anything else in the universe to vote for Republicans for the first time since the New Deal (Reagan Democrats) by replacing the union jobs they lost under Carter with de facto government jobs in the defense industry. Unfortunately, they weren't voting on principle and weren't authentic conservatives and as soon as the Cold War was over and their defense jobs went away they went back to voting for Democrats.

I liked Reagan and voted for him. But I sometimes wonder. He got elected promising to a) put the Soviets out of business and b) shrink government. He hastened the former for sure, but failed utterly at the second. History shows the Soviets were gone anyways. In retrospect, he should have spent more political capital getting rid of the Dept. of Education and other agencies, and trimmed those agencies he couldn't eliminate. In 1982 it may not have looked that way but in 2015 it looks like he concentrated on the wrong monster to kill.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-10-12 05:53|| 2015-10-12 05:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The EUSSR politburo wants Europe to be a superpower but noone else wants them to be.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-10-12 06:04|| 2015-10-12 06:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Do not fail to credit Carter who was so horrible that it encouraged the Soviets to overextend themselves in time for Reagan.

Hopefully Obama's horribleness may someday serve in the way.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-10-12 13:46|| 2015-10-12 13:46|| Front Page Top

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