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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	You're right on most accounts
	Date:	2/12/2010 5:06:05 PM

Do you mean the last thing we want is for Russia and Iran to OVERTLY band their nuclear efforts together? You know as well as we that Russia and North Korea are both already helping Iran. as for your second question, the answer is obvious. Their nuclear ambitions have been a problem for a while but Bush was in no position politically to deal with them after eight years of being pilloried by the left as a war monger. The reason it is so important now is it appears that they are getting closer to being a nuclear power and need to be stopped. I already pointed out we do not need another North Korea. And we cannot wait to expunge Obama from office to stop them.

As for your recollection of our understanding of what was happening when Reagan made his comments you are misremembering. When Reagan made this plea there were a large number of Sovietologists and members of the intelligence community that did not see the weakness in the Soviet Union. Reagan was almost alone in recognizing it and the fall did not happen until 1989. Even Gorbachev himself admitted that Reagan's statement had a big impact on them and their thinking. Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II deserve credit for the peaceful demise of the Soviet Union and it is disgusting that Gorby was given a Nobel Prize without even a mention of Reagan.

I suggest you read The Reagan Years by Stephen Hayward. Very well researched and footnoted. You are just wrong about this.