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« The Council Has Spoken | Main | The Milblogs Do D-Day » June 06, 2004
Rest in Peace, Gipper
Posted by Bill You were right. UPDATE: What do I mean by "you were right?" At Cranky Neocon's fresh new Typepad digs, Gordon reminds us: In the 80's, it was an undisputed fact that Reagan was going to bring nuclear annihilation upon us. He coudn't care less about the ozone hole. Japan was going to overrun us as our economy lost 110% of non-service jobs. What else? Oh yeah, if you rearranged the letters of Ronald Wilson Reagan, you would get Anglo Warlord with some letters left over. As we endure foreign policy hardship today, it's helpful to remember that Reagan's unnering moral compass and simplistic rhetoric have won praise in the eyes of history, despite a great deal of opposition at the time. I would never suggest that George Bush is 1/10 the communicator that Reagan was, but sometimes, when an extremely powerful man pushes a BIG IDEA ... the world wins. Posted by Bill at June 6, 2004 08:38 AM | TrackBack (2) CommentsI remember Reagan very well---and apparently, no one else does. I remember the man who sold arms to terroists, laundered the money through Central America, started the despotic War on Drugs catastrophe, gave us huge deficits and the SDI shell game, turned ketchup into a vegetable, and laid a wreath on the grave of SS men at Bitburg. He declared war on the poor to enrichen millionaires. You'll forgive me if I don't shed a tear. Posted by: Don Myers at June 7, 2004 09:38 PM It's helpful to remember that Reagan's moral compass and simplistic rhetoric have won praise not in the eyes of history, but during the current political climate. The eyes of history change as history itself changes. Histories future eyes may see Reagan quite differently from the eyes of a population during the current political climate.
Posted by: e at June 10, 2004 07:44 AM e- you are right, the eyes of history have shaped the perceptioon of Reagan - that and the fact that on the largest foreign policy initiatives, HE WAS RIGHT. Before you blather some more negativity, please go talk to an Eastern European immigrant; ask them what they think of Ronald Reagan. Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at June 10, 2004 09:13 AM i like it Posted by: nicky und paris hilton at July 2, 2004 07:44 AM |
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