Another myth. I really liked what Gorbachev said. "We are going to do a very cruel thing to you, we are going to take away your enemy"
I would also suggest that it all but bankrupted the US and lead directly to the situation we are in now. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:328674 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
