Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>> 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.
Er, Reagan planned something? I always regarded him as sort of the Tin
Man of Presidents... "If I only had a brain...."
>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.
And ran us how far into debt doing it? I don't know much about the Cold
War (as I think I've effectively demonstrated) but it hardly seems worth
it. *Why* was it so important to drive communism into the ground?
No, really, I'm asking. Why?
Kat Feete
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