Riiiiight.

Anyone who falls for that nonsense needs to read Peter Schweizer's "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism".

I'm getting a little tired of the "Saint ronald" myth. I spent Reagan's entire administration in uniform. His "military build-up" was long on expensive weapons systems that nobody was ever going to use and really short on pay raises for us. We got a bigger one from Carter. And the only times he sent us in were 1) Beruit, to rescue Yasser Arafat and from which we basically retreated, 2) The bombing mission against Mohamar Gadaffi. We killed a janitor. and 3) Granada. A one day photo op for the army and for which more army officers got bronze stars than there were soldiers in the actual invasion.
Reagan's grand quote "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" came after the decision had already been made to tear down the Berlin wall. It was right up there with Christopher Columbus telling the indians on Hispaniola that he was going to make the sun go dark when he knew there was an eclipse comming. And just like those ingorant other savages, all of us bought it. If anything, Reagan's saber rattling prolonged the cold war by a few years and made Gorbachev's job harder.

Mo, there was no "40 year struggle" for Reagan. 15 years before he was president, Reagan was selling soap on "Death Valley Days". He never really left acting, he just changed production companies.

laintBacchus,

What branch of the service were you in? My wife was a 2LT in the Army when Reagan was inaugurated and that's when her pay started to increase. Increase significantly. By 1984, she was getting paid more than I was in the private sector as a CPA with a Masters Degree. I know the pay differential was due to my incompetence, but still, it wasn't that bad.

My mother cried when Reagan won because she believed all the leftist claptrap about him wanting to bring about nuclear Armaggedon.

That certainly changed and I don't know if she's voted Democrat since.

My father was in the military since 75 and the difference between Carter/Reagan is like night and day.

A Gorby lover. I thought you guys were extinct. And a Carter lover to boot. Let me guess you're a Cub fan as well. Gorby did not want to bring down the wall or the Soviet Union. All he wanted to do was paint a human face on that sick, dying country to fool clowns like you. Apparently in your case he succeeded. It's true, there is one born every minute.

The left has been using the Gorby stopped communism thing for a while.

Stupid democrats still think they can get away with their perpetual fraud. Democrats lose support with every lying breath.