Reagan v. Bush
by TChris
As Republicans attempt to cast George Bush as a clone of their great departed hero, Ronald Reagan, it is worth noting that they share one thing in common: bad judgment about foreign policy.
U.S. support extended to guerrillas to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan has blown back in the form of al Qaeda and extreme instability in Central Asia. U.S. help to Saddam Hussein in Iraq also boomeranged. Iran-contra was not as great an aberration at the Reagan White House as it is often painted today.
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