Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> There is a period of time in which former world leaders are judged by > historians. Usually before history becomes legend and then myth. Reagan was a mythic creature. So many mik > > He restored America's confidence after the debacles of Vietnam and Iran. > (Vietnam destroyed Johnson's Great Society and his presidency.) > Oh my... he was the 'great corrupter' in my eyes. I see the mentally ill on the streets everyday in NYC that were once housed in Federal institutions he closed. Disgusting. > He ended the cold war, destroyed the Warsaw Pact and brought eastern Europe > back into the western world. In process he never had to fire a shot to do > so. > (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter couldn't do > it.) Well, he often took credit for events that were already in motion. We won't recover from the financial nightmare he oversaw. > Too many world leaders are politicians first and statesman never. Reagan certainly wasn't a statesman. How about him saying he helped liberate Auschwitz? What an embarassment! A bad actor and a worse politician. Jon Brooklyn