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End of the Cold War. Major achievement.

Who are you trying to kid? The Cold War ended because we had a President who recognized that the objective should be to WIN, not to further legitimize and continue the globalist policy of 'detente', GHWB was an advocate of leaving the Soviet Union right where it was, captive nations and all. It was Reagan who directed that the West, led by the United States was going to put the Soviets out of business and that's exactly what he did. Georgie only got the credit because he happened to be serving as caretaker (a failed caretaker) over what was considered to be Reagan's third term. If it were up to GHWB, the Eastern European nations would still be enslaved, Germany would still be divided with the Berlin Wall in place, and the Baltic states would likewise still be part of the Soviet empire.

Also, avoided the mess his son got us into in the Middle East. That also counts for something.

Ask the Kurds who GHWB stabbed in the back. After directing that leaflets be dropped all over Iraq during Gulf War I, urging the Iraqi people and those in opposition to Saddam to 'rise up', when they DID rise up, the orders went out to our troops from the White House NOT to assist, participate, encourage or let alone ARM those rebels with captured Iraqi Army weapons. Numerous reports of weapons being either blown up OR shipped off to anti-Soviet rebels still in Afghanistan. Saddam was hanging on by his fingernails for a brief period, but Bush I let him off the hook.

Good luck on Trump turning out to be as good a diplomat and not antagonizing everybody we have to work with.

I would be willing to bet that Trump won't be talking about 'New World Orders' and that Islam is a 'Religion of Peace' and the issue isn't 'antagonizing everybody we have to work with', the issue is that those who have to work with US, (as in U.S.) had better damn well not be antagonizing US!. How's that for an improved perspective?

Bush dealt with the remaining Cold War problems when he was in office and did so well. Things could still have been screwed up by a lesser president. Whatever policies he might have favored earlier or under other circumstances are irrelevant.

Similarly, that Bush didn't create the mess his son did in the Middle East is to his credit. What we've seen recently only confirms that he followed the right course, whatever missteps occurred along the way.

It sounds like you've opted for the "omnipotent America" hypothesis -- that we can do anything we want in the world by ourselves. Good luck with that. And with Donald Trump. You're going to need it.

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>> “ It was Reagan who directed that the West, led by the United States was going to put the Soviets out of business and that’s exactly what he did. Georgie only got the credit because he happened to be serving as caretaker (a failed caretaker) over what was considered to be Reagan’s third term.” <<

Right as rain!

And now in Ted Cruz we have Reagan+.

We’d better not squander that.