Whoa...found your hot button, didn't I?
I guess it's all a matter of what age group you're in.
Here's a speech by Reagan on the subject of confronting communism around the world, when the America Left was fighting him every last step of the way. "U.S. out of (insert country here)" was the war cry.
In almost every place Reagan confronted the Soviets, either directly or through their surrogates, most of the Left took the other side, and this continued for eight years.
I submit that the Democratic leadership of Carter, Mondale and Dukakis would not have won the Cold War, and I haven't run into any evidence yet to convince me otherwise.