The way I read it, “Bush delivered the first” referred to GWB delivering our first blow in the current war, therefore to expect the current war to be won immediately after he leaves office like Reagan and the Cold War is unrealistic and naive.
The way I read it, “Bush delivered the first” referred to GWB delivering our first blow in the current war, therefore to expect the current war to be won immediately after he leaves office like Reagan and the Cold War is unrealistic and naive.No, no, anyone reading that mis-type would have been properly baffled. I even had to find that post again and when I read it I was like "What???"
I meant to type "THEY" not "BUSH" as a reference to the soldiers stationed as part of our decades-long containment of the USSR.
Well, that's the way I was thinking overall, but the point I was making at that point was about our soldiers being the containment that kept the USSR in line. But I definitely was thinking along those lines--Reagan delivered the killing blow in HIS particular war, while Bush delivered the opening one in this one (using those troops, of course). Our troops are so often considered just tools for the actions of great leaders, when if our troops were less than the very best, neither president would have achieved much of anything in these areas.
It's just such a foolish comparison--Reagan ending the Cold War which had been going on for decades, Bush starting to battle Islamofascism and being blamed for not wrapping it up in a matter of years.