>You know Condi Rice was the architect of Reagans policy toward Russia. If true, how brilliant was that?
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If she was the architect, it was brilliant. If she wasn't the architect, it was brilliant. Yep, it was brilliant. Reagan had the character to go against even his advisers and do what he knew had to be done. He called the evil empire what it was. Even Iron Maggie and Gorbachev gave him credit for the fall of communism. Read Krauthammer's take on him, it is much more articulate than anything I could write.


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>>>The USSR paid a price for its heavy military involvement. I wonder if we have learned a lesson from that?
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>>>Tom
>>Er, I believe they basically spent themselves into extinction. The reason they did that was a cowboy by the name of Ronald Reagan (God bless him).