[americanbychoice]

your point #4
That is silly. Do you really believe that the cold war ended in a matter of weeks? A hell of a lot of work and years of Reagan pushing the issues preceded that.
Bush just had the job of "Clean-up".

[Michael81Dus]

Why so harsh? Reagan had no talks about what will happen if the USSR breaks. Reagan, the Polish Solidarnosc, etc did the preparations, but the decisive time (when it was critical wether the Empire breaks or uses violance) was from autumn 1989 until Dec 1991.