[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Thanks Paul, it was a long article, very verbose. Its revisionism was almost confusing, but you have to ask the author that. It doesn't answer another question.

If Reagan's arms buildup and lack of intimidation did not cause the economy to collapse from a failure to compete, how did restraint, or cowardice if you follow the author, from killing protestors? We didn't kill tons of Anticapitalist, Anti American protestors over the weekend and last time I checked America was fine.

I could run outside real quick and check but I'm pretty sure about that.

[Paul Ross]

If Reagan's arms buildup and lack of intimidation did not cause the economy to collapse from a failure to compete, how did restraint, or cowardice if you follow the author, from killing protestors?

Nice conundrum for mrstrow. He probably won't even get the logical application.

[Archimedes2000]

All:

If anyone is interested in this subject, I recommend reading Victory: The Secret Strategy of the Reagan administration by Peter Schwietzer. It documents thoroughly the efforts by the Reagan adminsitration in the economic field to cause the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ignoring for a minute the Reagan arms build up, there were efforts to get Soviet loans reclassified at higher interest rates, denying Soviets pipeline technology (which America owns almost all patents for) which was equivalent to denying the Soviets foeign currency, supplying the Soviets with false computer hardware/soiftware so their backwards computer efforts would be doomed to collapse, no matter how mightily they toiled, or how much technology they tried to steal, and dozens of other economic efforts.

The author of the article is seriously uniformed, and a simple session with this book would have corrected his ignorance.

[Paul Ross]

We didn't kill tons of Anticapitalist, Anti American protestors over the weekend and last time I checked America was fine.
I could run outside real quick and check but I'm pretty sure about that.

Uh, no need, but you may want to check this out:

A lot of them were skewered and slayed by some incisive interview questions...and shown to be clinically brain-dead

[Archimedes2000]

Here's a link to Peter's book. A great read, check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871136333/qid=1045701103/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-2838071-5671051?v=glance&s=books&n=507846