 | Moosekarloff (17)
06/14/2004 |  Probably the worst, most dangerous President in terms of foreign policy in our history. Neither he nor his advisers had a clue how to deal with the outside world, and the negative legacy of his boneheaded policies has endured to the present day. The Crapper's truly lame performance in foreign affairs is evidenced by numerous facts, so any opinion that the idiot did a good job in this area is just that: an opinion unsupported by the facts of the matter. Reagan continued the moronic, suspect policy of our government to support despots in fly-swat countries no matter how heinous that tyrant's record was, no matter how much of a butcher he was, just as long as he wasn't leftist. So, Marcos, Duarte, Rios Mont and Duvalier, all great guys genuinely in alliance with the American Way, were shored up and given legitimacy by the Crapper. History has shown the pinheads who didn't consider this ill-advised at the time that such policy was flawed and not at all in the best interests of the U.S. That is, if the pinheads are paying attention at all, or have the mental capacity to learn from this. R's handling of the mideast was so maladroit that numerous avoidable disasters ensued because our troops were unnecessarily placed in harm's way. The U.S.S. Stark incident, Gander tragedy and the bombing of the Beirut marine barracks were all the result of poor deployment decisions, matters of our troops needlessly being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Other policy blunders in this regard led to the deaths of countless civilians who were merely minding their own business when they were wasted by the gung-ho yahoos in our armed forces. Remember the U.S.S. Vincennes incident, how our heroes blew a commerical jetliner out of the sky because it was mistaken for an enemy aircraft? Remember how Libya was bombed supposedly in retaliation for its suspected role in a terrorist attack against U.S. troops in Germany? Actually, this was a transparent ploy to take out Khaddafi, a gambit that missed its target, and in doing so, rained death on the innocents. Remember that trumped up invasion of Grenada, a minute island nation that was absolutely no threat to the U.S., our freedoms and our way of life? Trashing that nation because a handful of U.S. citizens in a rinky-dink medical school there were supposedly held hostage by leftists? Turns out those students weren't in danger until the bombs started to fall. The truth was Rectum turned the taxpayer-supported professional killers loose because he was taking heat for the budget-busting military build-up that lined the pockets of his buddies in the defense industry and he needed to justify flushing all that money down the toilet by manufacturing a bogus war. Furthermore, the Great Fornicator's supposed role in bringing down the USSR is a grave misconception, a prime example of revisionist history and one of the great Conservative Myths. USSR actually imploded under its own weight, and the social dynamics that led to this internal impetus were strongly entrenched years before Rectum took office. The disenchantment of an emerging, increasingly influential middle class in the USSR, coupled with the support of an opportunistic Soviet military that felt it had something to gain in a major regime change led to the fall of the old Kremlin fossils, plain and simple. Gorbachev, a liberal reformist, was much more responsible for the end of the USSR than the conservative BS artist who used to shill for GE. The absolute height of illogic was when the R administration armed our so-called enemy Iran against our ally at the time, Iraq, and used the proceeds to fund the Contras, who were trying to overthrow a sovereign government that was no threat to U.S. interests at all. Arming two mideast countries against each other is like throwing gasoline on a roaring fire, and defrauding the U.S. taxpayers to destabilize a western hemisphere neighbor is as retarded and dishonest as you can get. Finally, Americans fail to remember that the old douchebag was instrumental in enfranchising Saddam and getting Osama his start in terrorism. His administration supplied Saddam with military intelligence and chemical weapons to use against Iran, which he did. Saddam had a good deal of these WMD left over to use on his own people to quell a civil war the Bush I administration attempted to drum up, and Bush II used the questionable continued existence of these chemical weapons as the justification for his holy oil war. The R administration also trained/funded anti-Soviet operations in Afghanistan, and as Osama was the spiritual advisor to that outfit, this is how he started his terrorist career: in 1998, he used semtex he got from the U.S. to blast those two embassies in Africa. Thus, R's imbecilic decisions regarding Saddam/Osama came back to bite this country in the butt, and the bitter fruit left on the collective plates of Americans will be on the menu for sometime to come.
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 | Anonymous (1)
01/09/2004 | Why is Reagan given such high marks for foreign affairs? Does anyone remember the Iran-Contra Scandal, when this president tried to sell arms to Iran? Also, people credit Reagan with ending the Cold War. Actually, during the 1980s, relations with the Soviet Union were terrible. Even meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev obtained nothing. If you read an account of the U.S.S.R.'s history, you will find out that the collapse of Communism was caused by Mikhail Gorbachev's striking reforms and the defense spending of his predecessor, which bankrupted the government of Soviet Russia.
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