I have heard that's not true. After all, Bush wasn't some random dude. They were bitter primary opponents and he was part of the moderate faction.Apparently Reagan picked Bush because they had his phone number and didn't have Rumsfeld's.
This gives the impression that Reagan truly was incompetent and HW Bush was pretty much the Dick Cheney of the 1980s, and Rummy or anyone else would've been to. I'm no Reagan fan personally, but he wasn't that much of a stooge.Then we might really have had WW3. Rummy wants to blow everyone off the face of the earth.
This gives the impression that Reagan truly was incompetent and HW Bush was pretty much the Dick Cheney of the 1980s, and Rummy or anyone else would've been to. I'm no Reagan fan personally, but he wasn't that much of a stooge.
I think the saner voices would've prevailed in the end.Agree, but he was somewhat of a hands off/delegator type of President and Rummy might have been able to convince him to start a major war. OTL Reagan didn't do anything larger than Grenada.
Yes, but Rummy has certain powers, be they psychic or something else entirely.I think the saner voices would've prevailed in the end.
OK, dude, I hate Rumsfeld, but the man's not a fucking cartoon villain.Yes, but Rummy has certain powers, be they psychic or something else entirely.
but on the proxy war front, sadly in Guatemala, it was g for genocide, in retrospect it really the hell was.. . . OTL Reagan didn't do anything larger than Grenada.
but on the proxy war front, it was g for genocide in Guatemala.
We saw it in terms of East-West, communists vs. anti-communists, but a big component was ethnic, the Spanish descendants vs. the indigenous Mayans. In part, the Guatemalan government wanted to establish these civil patrols and the Mayans resisted. And the weird thing is, that the issue got Reagan's attention, at least a little bit. He publicly said the Guatemalan president was getting a bum rap.
talking about Ike and Guatemala, as well as Iran.This is why I don't like Ike.
but on the proxy war front, sadly in Guatemala, it was g for genocide, in retrospect it really the hell was.
Yes, it was. And I think Carter was the one who first started funding the contras. Providing yet another example that U.S. foreign policy during the cold war was nasty stuff, and usually it didn't matter who was president.Nicaragua was bad too.