Quote Originally Posted by Xanith
Israel was attacked by Hezbollah when their members came across into Israeli territory and attacked and kidnapped Israeli troops. Israel had every right to retaliate. If you ask me their response was too tame because they didn’t bomb Lebanon back to the “stone age” as you put it but instead used targeted bombing to kill Hezbollah terrorists that were firing rockets into civilian areas.

I remember the Reagan years as well and I can remember the leftist howling with discontent about how he was confronting the Soviet Union. History has show that confronting the Soviets was the correct thing to do so it looks as if your fear was unfounded back then. Somehow I don’t think you have changed and again if we look at history, your history, you were wrong back then, its likely your wrong today as well.

X
I'm not going to touch the first paragraph

As for the second, what is with this leftist label that you bandy about. Back "then", I was a British soldier, and although had no great love of Margaret Thatcher, thought she was much a much better choice than the idiot in charge of the labour party. So, as you can see, hardly a "lefty".

I haven't changed much, and history has proven my point. The Soviets where never really an active threat, they were far more concerned with defending themselves from the West. Kinda funny, but hey that's the way your average soviet looked at it. Individually we got along a fine. When I was home on leave I used to regularly go drinking with the Russian fishermen, they were/are a very decent people (a little bit mad, but on the whole decent). Reagan on the other hand seemed to have a dubious grasp on sanity at times. Not so bad when your grandfather only has the remote control for the telly, but not so good when he has his finger on nuclear armageddon.

So, I stand by what I say, "We were more scared of Reagan starting world war III than the Soviets." But apparently, I have an inaccurate memory of this part of my life, as you claim that I am wrong, and I obviously wasn't more scared of Reagan starting World War III. Somehow you have this "insight" into my memories of the time and can actually disagree with the way I remember my feelings. Wow.