A World of Enemies -- is It All Reagan's Fault?

I strongly recommend that anyone interested in this subject, please read:

REAGAN'S WAR by Peter Schweizer

(From book cover)
"Schweizer details Reagan's economic and political war against Moscow, a war that he personally mapped out and directed. Schweizer brings to light dozens of previously unknown facts about the Cold War, based on secret documents obtained from archives in Russia, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the United States."

It is interesting to read about Jimmy Carter's efforts and those of many leading Democraps to seek assistance from THE SOVIET UNION to defeat President Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election! The Soviets put up large sums of money to fund the anti-war and environmental movements to make President Ronald Reagan look bad.

This article, and the wishful thinking behind it, is targeted at those who long for the security that they felt in knowing exactly who they should view as the enemy. Today's world is too scary and unpredictable, so they construct a mythical golden past, where everyone knew their place and where all the people of Eastern Europe deserved to live under the jackboot (all they had to do was rise up, you see...). That argument is frankly morally repugnant. If you want to refer to a president who is in great measure responsible for the rise of Islamofascism, look no further than Jimmy Carter (ask many of those who have lived in exile from Iran since the arrival of the ayatollah).

Not only did I go behind the Iron Curtain during this period, I had family who lived there. I have friends who were involved in Solidarnosc. I am acquainted with those who risked a lot to deliver "propaganda" behind Communist lines (i.e. books on liberty, the Constitution, etc.). Ask any of them what caused the system to collapse--the collapse of the USSR was essential to the dominos falling across Eastern Europe. And the Soviet Union did not collapse despite Reagan and his policies; it was in great measure BECAUSE of him. The Pope played a significant role, too--but that is another subject entirely.

This ex post facto revisionism fails to understand the mechanics of why Communism collapsed---because then the author and his friends would have to admit that the system itself is flawed, based upon an economic model doomed to eventual collapse. But all the state-controlled economy lovers out there (yes, that means you Buchananites, too)can't accept that without admitting that their dreams of state utopias will never work, no matter how they're slanted.

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