[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[Valin]

Bum for later.

One thing I like about Newt is he has more ideas waiting for the toast to pop up than most people have all day. Now most of them are wacky or never gonna happen, still ya gotta love a guy who keeps thinking all the time.

[Valin]

Then Ronald Reagan came along. A reporter said to Reagan, “What’s your vision of the Cold War?” Reagan said just four words: “We win, they lose.” Everybody in Washington understood that was goofy. First of all, “we win” is a hostile term, implying one side would do better. “They lose” was crowding them into a corner. How could you expect a dictatorship with nuclear weapons to treat you, if you say they’re going to lose? People like Strobe Talbott were on the edge of heart attacks for four years.

For the life of me I don't understand (There's that phrase again :-)) why this was "controversial". I always assumed we were going to win. Why because we were the good guys, ok naive I know, but that's what I thought.

[CGVet58]

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