HE: And under President Reagan we built up our defenses., we built up all these anti-communist insurgencies in Afghanistan, in Nicaragua, we putting the Pershings into Western Europe, etc., etc. The point is: Would you have supported any of those of measures, on the grounds that you are… we shouldn’t have done any of this because it would be provoking, somehow, that which would come back and haunt us?------------------------------------------------------------
RP: I don’t think that policy has served us well. I think that…
HE: The Reagan Doctrine hasn’t served us well?
he is right.
how has helping the Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan in the 1980s helped America? or Americans? or did it just help lay the groundwork for the taliban and Al-Quaeda?
and Nicaragua? who the heck cares if Nicaragua was communist?
I don’t see what business it was of ours