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How terrible it is to exploit the others' weakness in order to win.

HA!!! I remember being in the Air Force and getting all the B.S. drummed into my head about how communism/socialism's only goal is world domination!!!!

And to think I believed it!!!! And to think I still do!!!

The fact that communist Europe fell is one of the greatest accomplishments ever. Even if this was the only legacy he left, it would make Reagan stand out as one of the best. IMHO, he is the President against which all others will be judged.

It's too bad that now that he has passed on, we're only now finding out that he had titanium balls. As more and more things become unclassified over time, we will learn just how courageous he was.

That'll cost y'all 2.5 cents.

I'd heard about the pipeline explosion as having been caused by intentionally written pipeline control software, that had been stolen by the Soviets.

Which I believed.

I've never heard it blamed on corrupted computer chips, and I don't really see how you could mangle hardware to create a particular effect in whatever software was running on it.

It'd be easy enough to build hardware that would stop working, but to keep working but to make many pieces of software fail in specified ways seems like a very difficult task.

Ronald Reagan became aware of just how desperate the Russians' financial condition was

The wording I have referenced requires an explanation. Why did President Reagan become aware? How did President Reagan become aware? When did President Reagan become aware? President Reagan receives the credit for ending the cold war in much the same way Columbus received the credit for discovering America. They each deserve the credit because they were the ones who made it stick.

My opinion on President Reagan's involvement in ending the cold war goes like this. Reagan enters office and is presented with a report of the Soviet Union's strengths. This report is presented to each President upon entering office so the president can know which government programs are required to counter those Soviet strengths.

What President Reagan did different was to ask for another report, one no previous President had requested. President Reagan requested a report on the Soviet's weaknesses. It was not President Reagan's goal to merely contain the Soviet Union; his goal was its collapse.