"I don't think you can overstate the importance that the rise of Islamic fundamentalism will have to the rest of the world in the century ahead -- especially if, as seems possible, its most fanatical elements get their hands on nuclear and chemical weapons and the means to deliver them against their enemies." – Ronald Reagan, “An American Life,” chapter 57

But of course the liberals have portrayed RR as a man without any reasoning powers or understanding of foreign policy issues. No Rhodes scholar like super-intelligent Bill Clinton. RR just happened to be in office preceding the total dissolution of the Soviet Empire. No way his SDI program (ridiculed by the liberal press as Star Wars) had anything to do with the economically induced implosion. Do we see a pattern of political characterization of non-liberal presidents as dummys?

-philw (which 2000 presidential candidate had a graduate degree?)