-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 02:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > >> - he decided to outspend the Soviets to bankrupt them > > Never mind that the Soviet Union would have collapsed with or without > Reagan. The average Soviet citizen wasn't exactly living the dream, after > all, and happy people don't grow suspicious. Glasnost was inevitable and > had far more to do with the Russia's withdrawl from the Soviet Union > causing it's ultimate collapse.
Every country collapses eventually. In 19*81*, was there *any* /consensus/ that the Evil Empire would fall in only 9 years? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF4HH7S9HxQb37XmcRAnT0AKDXvEGpArtLV8aY2hiQrHYTcJBzQgCgmQ/7 eFQiEFSNlA9l/jyn3VQhJWU= =8jln -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
