[Jay D. Dyson]

"All major media went berserk at Reagan’s refusal to give up the Strategic Defense Initiative. The New York Times angrily lashed out at SDI, calling it ‘utopian’ and ‘inconceivable.’"

"Inconceivable!" -- New York Times

"Zees word, I do not theenk you know what it means." -- Inigo Montoya

[My2Cents]

answering Barry Goldwater’s famous question "Why not victory?" with a resounding "Why not indeed!"

Reminds me of the tee-shirt Sheryl Crow wore on some awards program, with the words "War is Not the Answer." Some astute Freeper posted her, "War is Not the Answer -- VICTORY is!"

[sarasota]

Ann knows how to put each and every nail in the liberal coffin. She got a real charge out of the doofus who tried to talk his way out of a debate with her (last night, H&C); his only success was that he talked himself into a single corner, leaving Ann, and her audience, laughing at his buffonery.

[liberallarry]

Coulter writes: "The New York Times stylebook expressed contempt for the idea of winning the Cold War by requiring that these words be placed in quote marks: ‘superiority,’ ‘win,’ ‘evil empire,’ ‘freedom fighters’ ‘soft’ on Communism, and ‘backing down.’ This was in contradistinction to precise adjectives like ‘warmonger, ’‘unwinnable conflict,’ ‘dangerous’ or ‘simple minded’ none of which took quotes."

This trick is used all the time and it never fails to infuriate me.

[MonroeDNA]

I can't wait to receive my copy, for joining Human
Events.

I might have to go buy one now, anyway.

[oyez]

,Time magazine moaned that Reagan could have signed "the most sweeping arms control agreement in the history of the nuclear age.

Yes, and if he had there would still be the communist bloc to deal with. Another benefit would be that Sadam would probably be in control the Persian Gulf.

[RusIvan]

As the Reagan strategy took hold and the Soviet economy sank toward bankruptcy, the American left reacted in panic. When Reagan met Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, and refused to abandon his plan for a nuclear missile defense system – Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which the left derisively dismissed as an unworkable "star wars" program – and the summit ended with Gorbachev fleeing home to Moscow empty-handed, the left went crazy predicting doomsday. ===

Sorry guys but it part shows me that author doesn't understand what happened in Soviet union and why it fell apart.

Just for the clue. Check the US federal debt and compare with Sovet debt which Russia inherited. $6.4 trillions vs 70 blns. You may see who would bankrupt who.

The reason of USSR ends lays in another plain.

[laweeks]

When is this lovely and talented conservative going to get her own show on Fox (or wherever)? Hello! Is this thing on? What a gold mine! Even a half hour a week would be great! Of course, all the lib weinies would refuse to go on, so she could just have to make cardboard cutouts of them and blast away!

[aristeides]

I am now reading the excellent book Reagan's War, by Peter Schweizer. On p. 209, I read the following:

In East Berlin [after the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983,] there was a mad scramble to find out about American war plans for Nicaragua. "Indications are intensifying regarding a possible U.S. military engagement in Nicaragua," read a secret Stasi memorandum. "It has been learned from leading circles close to J. [Jesse] Jackson that the Reagan Administration is preparing for a direct armed intervention in Nicaragua."

In a footnote, Schweizer cites as his source "Stasi memoranum of September 24, 1984: John O. Koehler collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University."

[Old Sarge]

Isn't there some rule about obligatory pics?

[jethropalerobber]

Reagan had spent six years bleeding the Soviet Union from every limb.

and bleeding us as well, if you recall.