Can you cite any of those claims?
I'm about ready to send you to school on all three.
But I'd like some verification before I expend the energy.
OK. Let's start with #3. Reagan went 'hog wild' with 'star wars.'
You are 29, so you were about a foot long when Reagan took office? Well, 'Star Wars' was a media-coined term for SDI [Strategic Defense Initiative] which was a space-based defense system that was established to defend the U.S. from nuclear missiles.
As your liberal professors and peers won't tell you, anti ballistic missiles were actually being developed as a measure to
deter nuclear attacks...in other words - our message was, if you attack us with nuclear missiles, we will deflect and destroy the missiles, and
then destroy you.
Contrary to popular belief, 'Star Wars' wasn't a stockpiling of attack weapons for the U.S. to flex its proverbial military muscle.
While you were tuning into the Flintstones and The Three Stooges and pooping your pants, the rest of the world was living daily under the potential threat of nuclear annihilation.
Reagan's development of SDI was framed under three principles which would protect U.S. security interests from [particularly Soviet] nuclear threats:
- Absolute refusal of the U.S. to be vulnerable to attack
- Operating from a position of strength in achieving national security
- Understanding that U.S. security during the proliferation of nuclear weapons was reliant upon controlling space militarily.
Aside from extricating us from a decade-long recession plagued by sky-high inflation, oil prices, interest rates, unemployment, hostages in Iran and a sputtering stock market, Reagan crippled and discarded our greatest and most dangerous threat in U.S. history through strategic and military brilliance...all the while creating the strongest economic and capitalist expansion since the roaring 20's.
Throwing around thoughtless phrases like 'hog wild with star wars' in reference to the handling of, arguably, one of the greatest threats to the U.S. in history, is...eh, Stooge-like.
