[lit-ideas] Re: RR (Fictions and Realities)
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:54:06 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I just read this article. I am no fan of Reagan, and I agree with the article
presented here in every way except one. Most everything mentioned are
philosophical issues that could have been prevented prospectively (the
environment, institutionalizing greed, and so on). Regarding his aid to the
Islamic terrorists, however, we are judging him with retrospective 20/20
hindsight. There was no way for anyone to know what OBL was to become, while
the Soviet Union at the time was our enemy. Magnifying the Soviet Union into
the evil empire was certainly unnecessary, an extension of his movie fantasies,
but even so it would have taken a philosopher king to see that the enemy of our
enemy is our friend is a dangerous long term business.
Andy Amago
Needing to get some work done
-----Original Message-----
From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jun 7, 2004 8:05 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: RR (Fictions and Realities)
**Neither a good man nor a great president. He maintained his innocence
in public, but he betrayed his friends and acquaintances willingly to
HUAC -- a true quisling -- only teflon is more slippery...
TC,
/Steve Cameron
John McCreery wrote:
> WARNING: William Rivers Pitt is no friend of Reagan. But his assessment
> is well worth reading, especially for those of us with an interest in
> the uses of fiction in social and political life. See
>
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060704A.shtml
>
>
> John L. McCreery
> The Word Works, Ltd.
> 55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
> Yokohama, Japan 220-0006
>
> Tel 81-45-314-9324
> Email mccreery@xxxxxxx
>
> "Making Symbols is Our Business"
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