Of all the lofty commentary, this has had the most impact on me. Plain truth from a regular citizen. Of yet another country upon which the U.S. has made a POSITIVE impact.
Isn't it amazing how the America-haters ignore this type of thing, and yet still posture as intelligent people?
True.
Isn't even more amazing that President Reagan was hated and despised by the Europeans (not the least of which included the Germans), and suddenly someone in Germany can remember that he did more for Germany than anyone thought possible?
Even more amazing that Reagan promoted much more free market policies than W and yet W is now the most hated man of the European dictatorial elite.
It makes me proud to be an American and a free-market, anti government pro-liberty conservative.
You raise a good point, probably unintentional:
The time of Reagans death is favourable for Bush, as hard as it may sound. The loss of this astonishing man reminds us, that we can judge policy only when it´s history. The fact is, why I´m very reluctant regarding Bush (I´m not praising him, but I don´t criticize him on basics of his policy) is, because he´s doing something I cannot say yet how it will end.
The war on terrorism, nowadays even in Iraq, is not over. How can we say whether what Bush does is good or bad when we don´t know the outcome? It was the same during Reagan´s Presidency, and this analogy sounds favourable for Bush, at least from my view.
Time will tell, and has told us in the case of Reagan.