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Originally Posted by peter12
This thread is far down but I want to reply to this. I'd say Reagan's approach was a complete success and righted the American ship after Carter almost flipped it. I think the effects of ReaganAmerica was beginning to see were positive until Bush's incomptency negated many of them.
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I would say escalation of assistance to rebel fighters in Afghanistan (carter's war) was a very bad decision, and would haunt america for the next 25 years (with no sign of stopping), both in the form of international 'terrorism' as well as the sharp increase of domestic opiate consumption. I would say American terrorism in Nicaragua is one of the worst overt acts of state sponsored terrorism ever. One could expand on that and simply use Latin America as the worst overt act of state sponsored terrorism that the world has ever seen, and it is of Genocidal proportions. One could similarly point to Africa, Angola specifically, under the same rationale.
I'm sure there are rational reasons as to why reagan's government would stand alone in support of Apartheid south africa.
Missile defense, trickle down economics, there's too much to know where to begin.