> Behalf Of Horn, John
> I'm not saying I disagree with this but...
>
> I've always wondered if and how much this was planned? Or
> was it more of an
> accident? Did some President or advisor say stand up and
> say "I know how to
> stop the big 'Evil Empire'! Let's spend them into the
> ground." It has
> always sounded to me more like when someone says with
> slight embarrassment
> "Uh, yeah, that's what we meant to do all along. Honest.
> Why else would we
> have been spending all these trillions, right?"
>
> - John
Ronald Reagan, at least, did consciously and deliberately plan to do
exactly that. During many of his speeches during the 1970s he
repeatedly stated his belief that a Communist government was incapable
of running an economy with any degree of competence and would be
forced into collapse if the United States pressed it. Jeanne
Kirkpatrick (his UN Ambassador and a close counselor) herself told me,
in fact, that he repeated those sentiments during private meetings
during his Presidency.
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