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June 07, 2004

Ronald Reagan, RIP

Joseph Bosco has an eloquent and poignant commtary on Ronald Reagan.

Leave it to a 3rd-rate actor to upstage a 4th-rate president during the commemoration of the most defining day of a uniquely 20th Century force for freedom and justice

BillMon at the Whiskey Bar has another fine article on the Teflon President.

The legacy of Reagan's policies in the Middle East, meanwhile, are still being paid for - in blood. The cynical promotion of Islamic fundamentalism as a weapon against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the alliance of convenience with Saddam Hussein against Iran, the forging of a new "strategic relationship" with Israel, the corrupt dealings with the House of Saud, and (perhaps most ironic, given Reagan's tough guy image) the weakeness and indecision of his disastrous intervention in Beruit - all of these helped set the stage for what the neocons now like to call World War IV, and badly weakened the geopolitical ability of the United States to wage that war.

His legacy is delineated over at The Epicycle.

Posted by dave on June 7, 2004 08:49 PM.

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