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Gorbachev is still a man and has pride so he can never admit defeat. He never has, even when he was removed from power when the USSR fell.

A couple lines of someones personal commentary doesn’t override history and the economic situation of the whole issue.

Take an economics class and realize how the Soviet Union fell and then Reagan will be praised as the hero he should be.

Reagan never got credit for this Cold War victory, and what happened in other parts of the world has brought a little shame upon that legacy (Iran/Contra). But he is the one responsible… And there is no doubt about it.

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/dsouza200406061619.asp

Dictatorial Communism sucks, of course, but its not a problem that can be solved militarily. It was diplomacy that saved the world from Communism, not Reagan’s foreign policy. If the militant Republicans had been in power more often in America, such as during the Cuban Missile Crisis, there’d be many craters all over East Coast USA.

It’s a sad but unavoidable fact that, in the great scheme of things, each country ends up with the sort of government that it deserves. The idea that dictators can hold power through violence is a children’s fairytale: the majority of people in those countries are simply willing to trade what we call freedom for the security and psychological simplicity of fundamentalist rule (the advantages of which we perhaps underestimate, who knows). Usually those countries gradually evolve toward Democracy over time, as they become ready, which has been happening in Russia over the past ~15 years with still a long way to go. And maybe some don’t. Even what we call Democracy isn’t perfect or final: it is evolving, and one day our current practices may seem barbaric to our descendants. But forced revolutions — especially those instigated externally, as the revolution US created in Iraq — only lead to decades of disorder and bloodshed, and can often result it more steps away from freedom than toward it.

~~Alex~~

Hey, this is one of the best cartooms around:

http://www.democracymeansyou.com/satire/explainified.htm

Hey, this is one of the best cartooms around:

http://www.democracymeansyou.com/satire/explainified.htm