At least he has the courage of his convictions and is not afraid defend his positions from the attacks of the uninformed. I agree. PJB is definitely an intelligent contributor to this discussion. I disagree with his conclusions, but I think they're honest. We don't know the long-term outcomes of our decisions now.
Reagan couldn't have known that we would win the Cold War in his lifetime, but he had faith that fighting it was good for the whole human race, and especially Americans.
In those terms, fighting Islamic theofascism and Stalinism (north Korean style) is worthy of our efforts now.
I agree with a lot of what you say but let's not be too sure we won the Cold War and Communism is dead as we've been led to believe. It's certainly not dead in China, S. Africa, Cuba and in other places where a communistic style gov't exists but is probably labeled something a little more palatable to our psyches. After seeing quotes by Gorbachev that the plan was to lull the West into believing that glasnost represented the end of Communism when in reality Mother Russia is seemingly alive and well regardless of what Dan, Peter and Tom are telling us. IMO I think we've been sized up, set up and in the process of being sold out.