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W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
By Vincent Rossmeier and Gabriel Winant

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:00 AM

    @trainman

    "History shows otherwise:"

    Even liberals acknowledge that Reagan's policies brought down the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War.

    "It is probably true that Reagan's intensification of the arms race … hastened the collapse of the Soviet economy. In a reversal that did him enormous credit, he … outdistanced his own national security bureaucracy in taking Mikhail Gorbachev seriously and in moving to end the Cold War." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/la-na-policy6jun06,0,6371808,full.story

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