Oh, you believe Reagan won the Cold War. Guess again. Red China never fell; Russia made a comeback under an autocratic “president” with KGB training who
believes that the fall of the USSR was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the (20
th) century” (not WWII mind you) and is working as hard as he can to create USSR II in the form of the “Eurasian Union”, never mind assisting Iran in building offensive nuclear weapons that Iran intends to use in an offensive manner. And noteworthy is Russia and Red China’s continued joint military exercises, which bespeaks a strong alliance there, and none of it pro-US. (Thanks for helping me bring things back on topic, in part.)
You mistake me. I don’t want a “war” (as the liberals have called their fiascoes in Iraq and Afghanistan); I want a
victory, especially while we still have the military capability of achieving one (but it would take the will). Shirking our responsibility in this arena will lead to world war, and (most likely if things keep going the way they have been) the actual Great Tribulation, since nukes will be in use.
PS. That alleged MacArthur quote to JFK has no source. A similar one was claimed by
pacifist James W. Douglass, not a very honest broker (comes from
JFK and the Unspeakable).
Thank you for candor in conceding
1) you favor US war in Iran.
2) you consider anyone who is skeptical about a third US war in the middle east in the space of 12 years, a “pacifist”
3) and now, you reject that Reagan won the Cold War (without launching any hot wars! he also didn’t invade Iran even though it was ruled by the ayatollah and its nuclear ambitions date back to even before Reagan’s time)
As for the caution by MacArthur — a “pacifist,” by your definition — against more land wars in Asia: that warning to JFK by the Five Star General hero of Inchon and Manila, was reported by no fewer than three of JFK’s top aides: Arthur Schlesinger, Theodore Sorensen, and Gen. Maxwell Taylor. See, e.g., the citations in Douglas MacArthur: Warrior as Wordsmith, by Brian Duffy and Ronald Carpenter, p. 151