See my #163.
Sorry, your post at #163 where you keep writing the same thing you have written in innumberable other posts makes no difference to the reality of the situation. We live in the real world, not some kind of make-believe simulation that some people are so fond of. We don’t have the luxury of sitting around drinking scotch and yapping about how WE would handle it. Our country has to deal with what we can deal with now, and take care of the rest when we can.
It is easy for people to say things like “let’s just reduce them to rubble and let the chips fall where they may” which sounds nice as a shallow talking point to the people who have a need to hear that, but isn’t going to help a real world problem.
I hope it doesn’t happen, but I suspect a lot of people are going to find out the hard way (like the guy in a post here who said he had himself removed from the voter registration because he is displeased with the political environment) that the real world is a string of compromises, some of them unpleasant.
President Reagan, a man whom I admired greatly, is dead and buried. We may see another like him, we may not. But it is time for people to give up the childish notion that he is going to somehow step out of the wings and make things right. It isn’t going to happen, and your candidate is no Ronald Reagan either. In the simple test of what is most important right now, Reagan would not be likely to advocate withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. His “Tear Down This Wall” sentiments are the progenitor of what President Bush is trying to do in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And as an aside...your hero (as well as mine) understood that you have to deal with unpleasant and unsavory people to make positive things happen. I viewed what Reagan and his people did in Iran-Contra as a positive thing even though the short term was bad. HE knew that as well. And it is what we are dealing with in Iraq.