Ronald Reagan's Administration was one of he most successful

The myth that Ronald Reagan is a hero who fought everything under the sun fixing this country is a myth of the worst kind... "believed" by some people. Ronald Reagan ballooned the national debt, committed treason, instigated polices which have been complete failures, and is no more responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union than the pope or any of the other people who claim to have done this.s I concede that Reagan gave great speeches and talked a good game but this is not enough to qualify one as a success. 1) The national debt went from 700 billion to 3 trillion under Reagan (and to an extent Bush 1). Clinton started paying it off and Bush Jr. has knocked it up to over 9 trillion (I'll concede that Bush Jr. is worse than Reagan was). 2) Reagan first took office by negotiating with Iranian terrorists who took our embassy hostage for 444 days, until the first 30 minutes of Reagan Inauguration speech. Carter had refused to give an inch with the terrorists and lost the election accordingly. Reagan later sold arms to the Iranians in order to fund South and Central American terrorist organizations. He overthrew and supported anti-democratic factions in the region allowing for death squads, disappearances, rape rooms, etc. He used the CIA to actively prop up some of the worst war criminals in recent history: Noriega, Pinochet, Saddam. 3) Regan's legacy are largely failed policies of the worst kind. The war on drugs, trickle down economics, and this national debt which has grown completely out of control. 4) Any knowledgeable historian of any credit will note that the Soviet Union largely fell based on internal corruption. It rotted from the inside and you can only take so much corruption before the system fails to function at all. The Pope, Reagan, Afganistan, etc... we'd still have the Soviet Union today if they weren't just filled with corruption at every level of government. -------- I for one, have had enough of this Reagan myth. You'd believe he single handedly murdered every commie on the planet and tore down the Berlin wall brick by brick while giving fantastic speeches, rebuilding the US economy having been devastated by the energy crisis. Why not recall the real Reagan? "James Watt, ketchup as a vegetable, Star Wars, a tax credit for segregated Bob Jones University, The S & L Scandal, trees cause pollution, Grenada, William Casey, union busting, trickle-down economics, CIA sponsorship of Muslim radicals in Afghanistan (including one Osama bin Laden), Ed Meese, extensive cuts in programs serving poor people, Robert Bork, and the tripling of the national debt." I don't know what your metric for success is, but I think if you are guilty of treason, triple the national debt, and fund terrorists who come back to bite us. The Teflon president is only impressive in so far as somehow people think about him and "don't recall" about him as much as he "didn't recall" about funding terrorists. It's a myth that he was a good president. There is certainly some partisan cognitive dissidence as far as he goes, happy recalls of great one liners he had, or how he wouldn't have stood for this that or the other. -- I think his reputation stands for itself. I see by your age that you never had to live through the Reagan era, that figures, one would be hard pressed to jump to such an odd conclusion had they seen the day-in day-out stuff this guy pulled. Honestly Reagan is a lot like Bush Jr. but when he sold Tax cuts for the Rich he actually had the guts to pretend that it was a good idea. They have the same policies for the most part save Reagan was a lot better as a salesman (and you kind of blame the first person to screw up with a dumb idea less).