I think you and I may have seen Colin Powell giving the same interview.
I do not want to give the impression that I believe Reagan was neutral about communism , only that -- I'm a lib'ral, I ain't dumb -- just to say there's another key player who deserves to be named.
I was talking with a Russian friend a while back, and Gorby's legacy in Russia is not very positive. He is believed to have torn down an oppressive system without anything to replace it. This from a girl who is now a huge capitalist, and spent her sixteenth birthday in a mob of people in Moscow standing in the way of the abortive military coup once Gorbachev began making plans for the demise of the USSR.
To be sure, the man wasn't the antichrist (contrary to the views of hyperlefties) and his legacy has successes and failures as much as the modern liberal equivalent, Bill Clinton's. King George, for all we pinkoes despise him, unseated the Taliban and, for right or wrong, Saddam Hussein, and the people of those nations and much of the world will be better off for it.
I've said it before: I'd be much more likely to vote Republican if they'd get out of bed with the religious right.
Re: Legacies
I do not want to give the impression that I believe Reagan was neutral about communism , only that -- I'm a lib'ral, I ain't dumb -- just to say there's another key player who deserves to be named.
I was talking with a Russian friend a while back, and Gorby's legacy in Russia is not very positive. He is believed to have torn down an oppressive system without anything to replace it. This from a girl who is now a huge capitalist, and spent her sixteenth birthday in a mob of people in Moscow standing in the way of the abortive military coup once Gorbachev began making plans for the demise of the USSR.
To be sure, the man wasn't the antichrist (contrary to the views of hyperlefties) and his legacy has successes and failures as much as the modern liberal equivalent, Bill Clinton's. King George, for all we pinkoes despise him, unseated the Taliban and, for right or wrong, Saddam Hussein, and the people of those nations and much of the world will be better off for it.
I've said it before: I'd be much more likely to vote Republican if they'd get out of bed with the religious right.