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To: My Favorite Headache
Which president really won the Cold War?

Among university leftists the popular answer is: President Gorbachev.

3 posted on 12/21/2009 11:39:23 AM PST by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: Sherman Logan
That's right. One example is the lame Cold War revisionist history by John Gaddis. he tells all about how Reagan Thatcher and Pope JP II out-maneuvered the Soviets, despite Gorbachev's desire to keep the Evil Empire viable. Then he turns around and gives Gorbachev more credit because he didn't send tanks into Poland, or some such. The fact of course was that Gorbachev was checkmated and had no choice but to acquiesce.

These leftists are such pests, they just never will be fit to live with. They believe that the truth is secondary to the cause, and that is why they must be crushed, eventually, by any means necessary.

12 posted on 12/21/2009 11:52:23 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sherman Logan

Well there was indeed one person on the panel who gave credit to Gorbachev and even went out of his way to make a point of showing that is why Reagan wasn’t even mentioned at the Berlin ceremonies last month.


15 posted on 12/21/2009 12:10:37 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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