They would all have been dead if president was right wing (nut)
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ronpataky — 9 years ago(August 08, 2016 05:00 PM)
"Eric-62-2", get a life. You are giving Margaret Grace Paddon high blood pressure.
I am not who you think I am. IMDB doesn't do traceroutes, nutjob, and even if they did, how would they "combine it," as you suggest, with screen names on other blogs? What's that prove?
And by the by, you don't know my name, address, where I've lived or where I've worked. Apparently you do have someone's, but it's not mine. Go ahead, post "my" personal information. I dare you. Then whoever it is that you think I am can take up the battle of wits against an unarmed person. The rest of your babble is babble. Inane ramblings combined with a distasteful propensity for random name-dropping, thrown out in a futile attempt to look intelligent, but ultimately only reaffirms that you're freaking nuts.
I've never refused to talk about
Fail-Safe
, but it's obvious you've refused to see a medical doctor. Maybe it's not lithium adjustment you need, maybe your Zyprexa upped, you're having breakthrough psychotic exacerbation while you use the internet very close to toxic waste in New Jersey. Nobody cares about you and your historical revisionist crap. You're a fruitcake. The funny thing about fruitcakes? People throw them away. -
tmaj48 — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 08:41 AM)
The end of the Cold War came about because of the actions of the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s, the support of the movement by Pope John Paul
II, and the new, progressive Soviet leader Gorbachev. A recent documentary about the Pope and the fall of communism in Europe tells how the Pope met privately with Reagan just before Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech in order to keep him up-to-date on the imminent fall of communism in Eastern Europe and likely asked for some kind of gesture of moral support. Reagan, a former actor, saw his cue and
made his speech, and to this day his acolytes still believe that it was largely responsible for the fading of the Cold War.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo. -
Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 11:44 AM)
Reality check time. It was Reagan who kept Solidarity alive as a viable movement throughout the 1980s because Reagan isolated Poland through tough sanctions that most of the rest of the Europe were not keen on, and it was Reagan and the Pope together in their meetings in 1982 who worked on how to keep Solidarity alive during the dark days when Brezhnev was still the Soviet leader.
But don't take my word for it, let's hear from Lech Walesa the leader of Solidarity.
"When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This cant be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.Poles fought for their freedom for so many years that they hold in special esteem those who backed them in their struggle. Support was the test of friendship. President Reagan was such a friend. His policy of aiding democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe in the dark days of the Cold War meant a lot to us. We knew he believed in a few simple principles such as human rights, democracy and civil society. He was someone who was convinced that the citizen is not for the state, but vice-versa, and that freedom is an innate right.I often wondered why Ronald Reagan did this, taking the risks he did, in supporting us at Solidarity, as well as dissident movements in other countries behind the Iron Curtain, while pushing a defense buildup that pushed the Soviet economy over the brink. Lets remember that it was a time of recession in the U.S. and a time when the American public was more interested in their own domestic affairs. It took a leader with a vision to convince them that there are greater things worth fighting for. Did he seek any profit in such a policy? Though our freedom movements were in line with the foreign policy of the United States, I doubt it.President Reagan, in a radio address from his ranch on Oct. 9, 1982, announces trade sanctions against Poland in retaliation for the outlawing of Solidarity.I distinguish between two kinds of politicians. There are those who view politics as a tactical game, a game in which they do not reveal any individuality, in which they lose their own face. There are, however, leaders for whom politics is a means of defending and furthering values. For them, it is a moral pursuit. They do so because the values they cherish are endangered. Theyre convinced that there are values worth living for, and even values worth dying for.
"Otherwise they would consider their life and work pointless. Only such politicians are great politicians and Ronald Reagan was one of them.The 1980s were a curious time a time of realization that a new age was upon us. Communism was coming to an end. It had used up its means and possibilities. The ground was set for change. But this change needed the cooperation, or unspoken understanding, of different political players. Now, from the perspective of our time, it is obvious that like the pieces of a global chain of events, Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher and even Mikhail Gorbachev helped bring about this new age in Europe. We at Solidarity like to claim more than a little credit, too, for bringing about the end of the Cold War.In the Europe of the 1980s, Ronald Reagan presented a vision. For us in Central and Eastern Europe, that meant freedom from the Soviets. Mr. Reagan was no ostrich who hoped that problems might just go away. He thought that problems are there to be faced. This is exactly what he did.Every time I met President Reagan, at his private estate in California or at the Lenin shipyard here in Gdansk, I was amazed by his modesty and even temper. He didnt fit the stereotype of the world leader that he was. Privately, we were like opposite sides of a magnet: He was always composed; I was a raging tower of emotions eager to act. We were so different yet we never had a problem with understanding one another. I respected his honesty and good humor. It gave me confidence in his policies and his resolve. He supported my struggle, but what unified us, unmistakably, were our similar values and shared goals.* * *
"I have often been asked in the United States to sign the poster that many Americans consider very significant. Prepared for the first almost-free parliamentary elections in Poland in 1989, the poster shows Gary Cooper as the lonely sheriff in the American Western, High Noon. Under the headline At High Noon runs the red Solidarity banner and the date June 4, 1989 of the poll. It was a simple but effective gimmick that, at the time, was misunderstood by the Communists. They, in fact, tried to ridicule the freedom movement in Poland as an invention of the Wild West, especially the U.S.But the poster had the opposite impact: Cowboys in Western clothes had become a powerful symbol for Poles. Cowboys fight for justice, fight against evil, and fight for freedom, both physical and spiritual. Solidarity trounc -
MooseNugget — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 04:50 PM)
To the OP
George W. Bush? He probably would have just pooped his pants if some like this would have happened. I don't think it's would he would have wanted but he was so incompetent that we all probably would have just got blown up anyway if something like Fail-Safe happened. -
Polly_Sigh — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 06:48 PM)
This was a typical anti-nuclear propaganda piece, pure and simple. No peace through strength would be considered.
Remember the old question
"Why do you build/have a (plug in your latest boogey man weapon here)?
Answer:
So you won't need it.