On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Regan had a plan? Naw. USSR may have been bankrupted in part due to the arms > race, but that was a side effect of it and not the intent of it.
Of course that was the intent of the arms race, and it worked. Reagan saw the defeat of Soviet communism as his life's mission: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19738 "Reagans hawkish policiesthe massive build-up of the U.S. military, the invasion of Grenada, supporting the Solidarity Movement in Poland, assisting Nicaraguas anti-Marxist Contras, the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and providing arms to Afghan rebels fighting the Russian occupationpushed the Soviets to military and economic bankruptc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328671 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
