Reply #4: Reagan and Daddy Bush are to blame [View All]

[noonwitch]

They were the brilliant ones who decided to:

Sell weapons to the Iranians, who were bombing or sponsoring the bombing of our troops in Beiruit, not to mention that they had held our diplomats hostage for over a year. That doesn't even include the drug deals with the contras, or the other seedy parts of the Iran/Contra scandal.

They also decided to speed up the demise of the USSR by almost bankrupting this country to restart the arms race. At the same time, China had protected trade status. The way we fought the cold war in the 80s has led to the terror problem we face now, as we trained and armed the future terrorists to be "freedom fighters" against communism.