RONALD REAGAN - "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL !"
Twenty years ago today in Berlin, Germany President Ronald Reagan called on Soviet General Secretary Gorbechev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Reagan was the first US President to stand firm against the Soviet Union and that stance coupled with his policy of strengthening out military lead directly to the collapse of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall ending more than forty years of Cold War with the Soviets.
His critics condemned him for his stance against the, "Evil Empire." Democrats believed that he would bring the ,"wrath, " of the Soviet down on America. Much of the world protested his stance against the USSR.
But Reagan new that Soviet Communism was weak and that a strong stance against their expansionist plans and ideals would lead to the end of the , "Evil Empire."
He was vilified then, but history has proven him correct and shown that his strength and steadfastness not only prevailed but brought to an end the threat of nuclear destruction from the USSR that had dominated US policy since the early 50's.
Ronald Reagan remembered. A truly great man and leader who lead during and extremely difficult time. He brought optomism and vision to the nation and pride in being an American.
Ken Taylor
posted by The Liberal Lie The Conservative Truth | 12:23 PM
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Hard to believe it's been 20 years!
They broke the mold with Reagan. There will never be another one like him. But please God, can you give us at least someone close?
Oh yeah! Run, Fred, Run! :)
Reagan's lesson to history is that we CAN achieve great things like freedom and peace for tens of millions in Europe if we have a vision and strong U.S. leadership.
Histories lesson also shows how the left, who opposed him every step of the way was WRONG and would have subjected the world to continued conflict and the threat of nuclear war.
Something to think about with today's war on terror.
History does repeat itself.
The wall came down on Bush's watch.
The sound of rightwinger's heads exploding...
"I am amazed the people who comment here are so ? dumb ? naive ? evil ?"
Stop trashing Mudslinger... that's my job!
"I am amazed the people who comment here are so ? dumb ? naive ? evil ?"
Says the person commenting. Doesn't even have the balls to leave a hyperlink. Typical moonbat.
Lots of drivel about conspiracy theories and secret ruling classes, but not a shred of evidence. Got anything to back up your delusions, or is it all just transmissions your receive when you're not wearing your foil hat?
Gee, I guess liberalism really is a mental disorder.
Tear down your walls rightwingers!
Again, no proof whatsoever.
Hey moonbat, I think Laika is sending out another transmission; you better get your foil hat back on.
Anonymous is clearly a republican mole posing as a leftwinger. He/she/it has been all over the net(s) - the butterfly nets.
Henry bit.
I did not particularly like Ronnie, largely do to the policies he championed when I was a Californian and he was the govna. That being said I think he was genuinely one of our luckiest presidents. Things just sort of seemed to fall into place even when he was asleep. I mean to up and fire the entire air traffic control system and not have planes crashing into each all over the sky was to say the least super lucky. Here's a little tidbit that will kind of put the whole big picture into perspective. There were bigger geopolitical forces at work here other that "Mr. Gorbechov Tear Down This Wall".
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ALL ABOUT OIL....I am, I think, more inclined to give Ronald Reagan a share of the credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union than many of my fellow liberals. But while rock-jawed rhetoric and missile defense may have played a role in the demise of communism, they were hardly the overwhelming factors that conservatives play them up to be. I'm reminded of this by Yegor Gaidar, who, despite an obvious agenda of his own for saying so, tells a big part of the story here:
The timeline of the collapse of the Soviet Union can be traced to September 13, 1985. On this date, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the minister of oil of Saudi Arabia, declared that the monarchy had decided to alter its oil policy radically. The Saudis stopped protecting oil prices, and Saudi Arabia quickly regained its share in the world market. During the next six months, oil production in Saudi Arabia increased fourfold, while oil prices collapsed by approximately the same amount in real terms.
As a result, the Soviet Union lost approximately $20 billion per year, money without which the country simply could not survive.
[The Soviet leadership was then faced with three options: start charging hard currency for oil exports, reduce food imports, or cut back military spending. None of them were seriously considered.]
Unable to realize any of the above solutions, the Soviet leadership...started to borrow money from abroad while its international credit rating was still strong. It borrowed heavily from 1985 to 1988, but in 1989 the Soviet economy stalled completely....The Soviet Union then received a final warning from the Deutsche Bank and from its international partners that the funds would never come from commercial sources. Instead, if the Soviet Union urgently needed the money, it would have to start negotiations directly with Western governments about so-called politically motivated credits.
....When the situation in the Soviet Union is examined from financial and hard currency perspectives, Gorbachev's policies at the time are much easier to comprehend (see figure 6). Government-to-government loans were bound to come with a number of rigid conditions. For instance, if the Soviet military crushed Solidarity Party demonstrations in Warsaw, the Soviet Union would not have received the desperately needed $100 billion from the West.
The only option left for the Soviet elites was to begin immediate negotiations about the conditions of surrender. Gorbachev did not have to inform President George H. W. Bush at the Malta Summit in 1989 that the threat of force to support the communist regimes in Eastern Europe would not be employed. This was already evident at the time. Six weeks after the talks, no communist regime in Eastern Europe remained.
Once it became clear that there would be no repeat of 1956 or 1968, every one of the Eastern bloc states seceded from Soviet control in short order and the Soviet empire was no more. Twas oil that killed the beast, not Star Wars.
Via Tyler Cowen.
Mr. Bush! Build up this wall!.
signed,
Rightwing Republicans n
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Mike,
You dont own the copyright on slaping Mudkittly shitless just yet.
We arent done with her yet!
Or I should say Mike from time to time we have to borrow your copyright on slapping Catfish totally incoherent, and you will just have to accept the infringements!
Slams Muddkitty's head up against the wall and chokes her senseless!
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