Ronald Reagan Revisited

Click here for an article by Peter Bienart in Foreign Policy magazine entitled "Think Again: Ronald Reagan," with the tagline "The Gipper wasn't the warhound his conservative followers would have you think." he demolishes three of today's favorite tropes: "Ronald Reagan was the ultimate hawk"; "Reagan banished the Vietnam Syndrome"; "Reagan frightened the Soviet Union into submission"; "Conservatives loved Reagan"; "Reagan was tough on terror"; and "George W. Bush was a Reaganite."