You really can't say anything like that about Bush.
Seems a bit myopic. The Middle East boil was way out of control and ready to explode. Bush lanced it. Now we wait and see where that leads us.
If it turns out Bush did the right thing, people will think better of him for it, but the jury's going to be out on that for a long time.
Looking back, though, Reagan did just about everything right so far as the Soviets were concerned, and it's much harder to say that about Bush and the Middle East.
Maybe Reagan was lucky and maybe he'd absorbed the lessons of forty years of Cold War, but he certainly showed more skill and mastery than Bush did.