It was under Reagan where you had near unprecedented peace time defense spending and programs like a national missile defense shield (SDI), or the stationing of GLCMs in Europe were conceived.
Reagan was anything but a pacifist. The difference is that when he played, he played to win and he chose his battles wisely. Everything he did was tied into a greater strategy, and while he often spoke in a very simple plain folk way, there was actually a sound calculus driving his decision making, which often was highly unpopular at the time! Reagan was ridiculed as some “cowboy” and idiot actor, but he was actually very quick on his feet, making few of the gaffs you see coming from the amateur Obama.
Obama is fighting a battle for public opinion, always doing what seems most politically expedient in that moment, even if this is a strategic blunder, i.e. leaving Iraq prematurely and leaving no stabilization force behind. Obama is an ideologue, a naive provincially minded race baiter that rose to the office of President with a resume thinner than some of the bloggers on this site. Obama was a man with no executive, military, law enforcement, business, economic, foreign affairs, staff or intelligence experience. He became this nations chief executive, supported by a staff and running the nations intelligence, defense, and federal law enforcement entities. The only things he feels comfortable talking about, is when he has some beer summit, or talks about some other race or social issue.
In short, he is the least experienced guy in the room. Any room.
Wait, 19th hole, he may have some cred.
The Iranians freed the hostages taken on his first day in office. The Navy shut down an oil platform in the Gulf.He gave Gadhafi a stern warning and he stopped terrorism, (BTW he also changed his mind when GWB invaded Afghanistan and maintained control in Libya. So WHY did he had to go, if it was not to promote the muzzie brotherhood there. Remember Skank went there cackling “we came, we saw and he died.”) President Reagan made the Berlin Wall fall as well as the whole USSR. And made us prosperous and proud to be Americans. The Putt King and his Kenya administration run by a bunch traitor an inexperienced community amateurish organizers sat the Middle East on fire by two speeches, October 30th, 2008 and in Cairo. He instigated the Arab Spring setting the whole world into total chaos, and now promoting open borders for ragheads to come in. He is a muzzie himself promoting more and more beheadings!!!