Ronald Reagan's Administration was one of he most successful

Ronald Reagan's legacy was built upon his strong character and realist beliefs. Sometime this is hard for common day liberals to grasp due to the fact that low taxes and prosperity are not principles that they feed upon. Realist theory enhances power amongst states and affirms that nations are self interested and thus anything but a zero-sum game is unacceptable. A zero-sum game originates from game theory and is simply a winner take all scenario. In this argument I will clarify the fallacies embedded in your statements, as well as furthering my case. In your first argument you mentioned a 3 trillion dollar national debt which later you accredit to "Reaganomics".Before I get into the extent of my argument I think it is important to realize that it was "Reaganomics" or better known as Trickledown Economics (TDE) that was responsible for lowering the unemployment rate of 7.6 (inherited from Jimmy carter) to 5.5%. Under TDE over 1.7 million jobs were created ANNUALLY every year during the Reagan Administration. TDE is the basic theory that if you lower the taxes of corporate America the businesses will have more spendable money to create these employment opportunities, and that is exactly what America saw during the Reagan era. While Reagan did leave office with a deficit it is superfluous to accredit Bill Clinton for the surplus in the 1990's. In fact I would even go as far to say that Clinton simply just happened to be sitting in the oval office when the money started flowing. You may be familiar with the 1989 disintegration of the USSR? That's right the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend which unfortunately for your argument continued to grow throughout the 1990's. He also reaped the benefits of Reagan's low inflation, high employment. So when put into prospective Reagan's economic legacy carried Clinton through what pragmatically is one of the few positive things he is associated with. In your second argument you question Reagan's character basically by charging him with treason. Again I will clarify your misguided assumptions. By the carter administration turning its back on the Shah it placed the U.S in a vulnerable position within the Middle east, more specifically Iran. You claim that Jimmy carter "refused to give an inch with the terrorists", the fact of the matter is the carter administration's attempt to free the hostages failed! So to say that he refused to speak to terrorists, that is a complete falsehood. Carter couldn't deliver and in doing so failed 52 Americans for 444 days. Reagan's foreign policy was far superior to that of his predecessors. He not only understood but practiced the most pragmatic ways of gathering intelligence for the safety of the United States. In 1981 The U.S CIA pay rolled Manuel Noriega to gain important possibly detrimental information concerning Nicaraguan contras. His drug charges were recognized in 1984 and he was convicted in Miami. Another unsurprising falsehood is Reagan's relationship with Saddam. At the time the two exchanged words we were allies not enemies. I am unaware of Reagan's support of rape rooms; my guess is another baseless fact? Ronald Reagan is known for his involvement in the crumble of the USSR. You claim that it was due to internal corruption, but I have to ask you what communist/ socialist government has not suffered from internal corruption? Any knowledgeable historian would claim that it was ecause of Reagan's economic manipulation that the USSR crumbled. You can deny that Reagan won the Arms race? In fact a lot of the debt is responsible for Reagan boosting the armed forces to avoid a nuclear disaster…shame on him! One of the last proposals on the table was Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. This had the capability of knocking missiles out of the air. The dying Soviet Union could not match this technology, let alone the cost. Reagan practically transferred Gorbachev's ideologies. The man even attended Reagan's funeral! So you can continue on with your anti Reagan rhetoric or you can respect, and accept the truth, Reagan was a great president, whose good outweighed the bad by far. I for one have had enough with factless arguments and stereotypical liberal babble. Ill be ready and waiting for the next round.