That’s total hindsight analysis. No one on the left was saying that then. And it’s not even correct in hindsight. I state again: The USSR had been through much harder times than the 1980s and they survived, They would have survived had it not been for Reagan.

Look whos talking !
I guess the view of our enemy as unruly children is a pretty realistic one huh ?
And Arnold always got the bad guy so what ?
I dont need comic books we have moonbats and socialist squirrels gone wild running around looking Circ D Solei on acid.

As a matter of fact the UN along with a bunch of socialist visionarys are going to start using comic books to do their dirty work.

“The comic, initially to be distributed free to 1m US schoolchildren, will be set in a war-torn fictional country and feature superheroes such as Spider-Man working with UN agencies such as Unicef and the “blue hats”, the UN peacekeepers.”

“The UN’s goals are somewhat different: according to its website, it hopes the comics will teach children the value of international co- operation and sensitise them to the problems faced in other parts of the world. “

For further reading on this > http://arclightzero.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/end-of-the-year-special-the-un-goes-after-your-kids/#comments

You really do have a comic-book view of the world, don’t you?

JMJ

First he says;
Micky. What the hell did Reagan do for regular people like us? I’ll tell you what he did - NOTHING. He was a useless sack of ordure. ”

And now its this;
Continuous pressure from the USA certainly helped that along,

Now he is certain that the USA being lead by Ronald Reagan helped it along.
Thats a far cry from when he earlier said “NOTHING”

And this;
“Reagan just happened to be there for the end of the movie, that’s all.”

And wouldnt it be just like hollywood and HUAC? he got rid if all the commies in the movies.
Plenty tried to put the nail in the coffin. But only Reagan could do it.

Thats like when you cant open a jar of pickles and then someone else does it for you and you say; “yea,so what? I loosened it up for you !
Reagan opened it and thats all that counts.

The Soviets were under international pressures far greater than Reagan and Maggie and the Pope prior to the 80’s. The USSR was a large poor nation dominating a bunch of small poor nations and eventually it died. Continuous pressure from the USA certainly helped that along, but Reagan was no more a part of that than Churchill, or Carter, or Kennedy, or Eisenhower, or whoever. Communism has been non grata in America since the Second World War. Reagan just happened to be there for the end of the movie, that’s all.

JMJ

JMJ

Yeah, like the USSR was in worse shape in the 1980s than in the 20s, 30s or 40s. What kept them alive when things were much worse would have kept them alive perpetually had it not been for Reagan, the Pope and Maggie Thatcher. When the Soviets found themselves screwed beyond recognition in decades past, they clamped down and used fear to keep things in order, And the West let them do it. Sometimes we even helped them out. That stopped with Reagan.

Also, who besides Ronald Reagan was saying back then that the USSR was anything but a superpower with whom we had to learn to get along?

The Soviets knew they had problems and their solutions to those problems were renderd useless by Reagan. Had Reagan not done what he had done the USSR could very well still be with us today.
And it didnt happen quite by accident or fate as you would like to try and sell that myth.
Reagan made it the center piece of his campaign by addressing them the “evil empire”. The USSR was in his sights since your favorite farce facad conspiracy theory the Hollywood blacklistings.

Your quite a character to even suggest that Reagans accomplishments are myths.
When you are…
#1 constantly shut down by hard fact always coming from me.
2# always claiming to know things about me and others that only God or myself could know.
#3 The biggest purveyer of myths I have ever known.

(A) Climate change (happens everyday since creation)
(B) Iraq is a “complete and utter failure” ( it was easy to prove that a myth)
(C) Bush has lied about Iraq and WMDs ( it was easy to prove that a myth)
(D) Our troops are not that educated ( it was easy to prove that a myth)
(E) Bush caused 911 (insane)
(F) terrorist are unruly children
(G) Americans are intensly stupid
(H) that I never read Carters book
( I) you know what matters to me.
This one is especially scary. It strongly spells out that you think you know what matters to people you dont really know. Sounds like big government nanny state thinking (if you call that thinking)
(J)( For Jersey ) Jersey knows for a fact that he has had more tail than me.

As far as Reagan goes… Everything you say is just a hateful opinion, and that is a fact. Because I have facts that prove your opinion to be just that.
You have nothing but suggestion, opoinion and hateful bias.
I have history, documents and mass concencous and agreement on my side.

Half your arguements are moot because they are always unprovable because as you say ” I cant prove a negative” Which really is a childish and unproductive approach to life.
I pick fights I can win because there is proof
You pick fights where there is no way to prove your point. Its like always having to prove something didnt happen.
This is why I am forever always shoving concrete facts and reliable sources in your face and you harldy ever have anything but opinion and heresay.

JMJ