IIRC, you said you were two years old back then. I was working for the US government as a Soviet economic analyst, so I know about this stuff first hand.
I have a lot of respect for George Shultz. But he was carrying out the policy priorities set by Reagan. Reagan alone formulated the policy that won the Cold War. We were never on the ver…
IIRC, you said you were two years old back then. I was working for the US government as a Soviet economic analyst, so I know about this stuff first hand.
I have a lot of respect for George Shultz. But he was carrying out the policy priorities set by Reagan. Reagan alone formulated the policy that won the Cold War. We were never on the verge of nuclear war. In fact, Reagan negotiated reductions in nuclear arms with the Soviets.
You clearly know nothing about Ronald Reagan. You are uncritically repeating the stupidest criticisms of him. He was neither an idiot nor a racist. According to the people who knew him, he was a closet intellectual who read books and discussed them with his staff. As for doddering, we now know that his last two years were marred by the onset of Alzheimer's, which explains why not much happened in those two years. But we got six good years out of him.
For future reference, the best criticism to level at Reagan, if you are inclined to do that, is Iran-Contra.
One of Reagan's initiatives was New Federalism - an attempt to shift power away from DC and back to the states. Federal grants to states had always come with strings attached, and over time that had tended to rob states of actual policymaking authority. Reagan wanted to cut some of those strings to allow states a greater role in administering their own affairs. For conservatives, this was a matter of faithfulness to the Constitution - especially the 10th amendment. Reagan's success with this agenda was mixed - it might have been one of the things that was left incomplete because of his Alzheimer's.
IIRC, you said you were two years old back then. I was working for the US government as a Soviet economic analyst, so I know about this stuff first hand.
I have a lot of respect for George Shultz. But he was carrying out the policy priorities set by Reagan. Reagan alone formulated the policy that won the Cold War. We were never on the verge of nuclear war. In fact, Reagan negotiated reductions in nuclear arms with the Soviets.
You clearly know nothing about Ronald Reagan. You are uncritically repeating the stupidest criticisms of him. He was neither an idiot nor a racist. According to the people who knew him, he was a closet intellectual who read books and discussed them with his staff. As for doddering, we now know that his last two years were marred by the onset of Alzheimer's, which explains why not much happened in those two years. But we got six good years out of him.
For future reference, the best criticism to level at Reagan, if you are inclined to do that, is Iran-Contra.
Oh so why did he kick off his campaign in Philadelphia MS talking about states' rights?
One of Reagan's initiatives was New Federalism - an attempt to shift power away from DC and back to the states. Federal grants to states had always come with strings attached, and over time that had tended to rob states of actual policymaking authority. Reagan wanted to cut some of those strings to allow states a greater role in administering their own affairs. For conservatives, this was a matter of faithfulness to the Constitution - especially the 10th amendment. Reagan's success with this agenda was mixed - it might have been one of the things that was left incomplete because of his Alzheimer's.
Or he was celebrating the murder of the freedom riders.