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.
I won’t argue against Reagan’s handling of the Cold War. I will say that time has a way of smoothing the rough edges and that Bush’s taking on the Middle East in a major way will someday also have it’s edges smoothed.