At 10:53 AM 5/25/01 +1200 K.Feete wrote:
>Er, Reagan planned something? I always regarded him as sort of the Tin
>Man of Presidents... "If I only had a brain...."
If my understanding is right, you're a college junior. That means you
should be @20 years old. So, in Reagan's last year in office, you would
be somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 or 8 years old. So, care to tell me
what you are basing these gratuitous insults on?
I highly recommend that you at least leaf through a copy of "Reagan in His
Own Hand" before you ever make another comment about his intelligence.
>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?
Wasn't it just yesterday that you launched into a tirade about how
concerned you were about justice in the world?
Perhaps you've heard of the atrocities committed in places like Ukraine,
Prague, Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), Ethiopia, Hungary, Gdansk, and
Cambodia. Perhaps you also recognize that everyone of those atrocities
has been committed by communist regimes.
Did you really want those people controlling large chunks of the world?
Do you really doubt that the communists would have taken over much of the
world had the United States not made efforts to resist them at every turn?
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of institutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
