On This Day In History

 

1. Although Reagan, Thatcher and JPII forced the USSR into the dust bin of history, it was also due to Gorby’s foresightedness. Never would have been possible under a Breshnev, much less a Stalin. He and Lech Wałęsa deserve a place in the pantheon responsible for the fall of the true Evil Empire.

   Posted by Rickvid       12/25/2006  at  08:18 PM  



2. The saddest thing is that if we’d made an effort to help Gorby maintain a law and order transition to freedom (instead of handing Russia over to that drunken buffoon Yeltsin and his mafioso cronies) we could have helped them to build a decent democratic country that would have been as close an ally to us as Japan is now.

   This mistake can be laid at the door of 3 people: Bush I, Cliton, and Rush Limbaugh. We were too eager to celebrate victory (and declare peace so as to gut the military) and not focused enough on the future.

   Posted by babylonandon       12/26/2006  at  06:23 PM  

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