Will the hatred of this great man never cease? Reagan was the first Western statesman who moved away from the old "containment" and "detente" policies to a commitment to actually defeat the Soviet Union.
I lived right through those years, as an adult, and remember well the changes in the world that the Administration of Ronald Reagan brought about. They were good changes.
I don't know where B Munro lived at that time, but I think he missed a few critical events. May be getting confused with the previous President, Mr Carter, but there was a consistency in appeasement about that particular President.
You mean the one who started the military buildup Reagan expanded on? The one under which aid to the Afghan resistance began? The one who imposed the grain embargo (the one which Reagan cancelled to please US farm votes.)?
I was living in the US through the eighties. You, I imagine, were inhabiting the same right-wing fantasy land you still live in. (You are aware dentente began under a Republican president, no? And that Reagan's right-wing buddies at the start of his Presidency were obsessed with the notion of avoiding being _defeated_ by the super-USSR of their delusions rather than having any real plan as to how to actually "defeat" the USSR? We can be thankful that Reagan was capable to breaking away from their paranoid fantasies when he negociated with Gorbachev).
Bruce