Walker is Right: Trafficker Firings Affected Soviets

Townhall.com ^ | March 5, 2015 | Robert Charles

[terycarl]

I highly doubt that firing the air traffic controllers convinced the Soviets that Reagen was a man of his words as much as putting intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe did, like he said he would do.

Wrong...both were critical...He did what he said he would do domestically...and followed up with doing what he said he would do internationally....you don't see any drawing of red lines there at all...and never did under his administration...he did it, didn't talk about it....did it.

[longtermmemmory]

the beltway idiots still have never forgive Reagan for ruining their eternal negotiations job security. (ie forever negotiating with Iran’s cleptocracy)

[dfwgator]

Even today, Russians still regard Reagan with the highest levels of respect.

[longtermmemmory]

in related news: the chair of the nobel peace prize committee was demoted because he pushed for Obama’s peace prize.

[cookiemcbride]

—it would be a real shame if you drove into a sinkhole because the a road sign was lettered “WARMING : SINK HOLE AHEAD.”-

Anyone who did that would deserve to be stuck in a sink hole forever due to their inabilty to rationally decipher an obvious mistake. Sheesh.

[cookiemcbride]

—They forgot to mention how they hated unions (think Poland).—

The Soviets *loved* unions.

Only problem was, there was only one union you could join. The one called the Communist Party,.

[lormand]

Until Ted Cruz came into the scene, my two votes for Ronald Reagan were the only votes I was ever proud of.

[rdb3]

Make no mistake, Scott Walker is right about Ronald Reagan’s firing of the air traffic controllers, and the sobering impact this one decision – a domestic policy decision – had on the thinking of Soviet leaders.

This one thing made my father, who's fairly apolitical, a HUGE supporter of Reagan.

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.

[SunkenCiv]

Important to remember as we linger on the threshold of the exit for the Putin era (we hope). Thanks Kaslin.