We were told that the Soviets were dangerously outstripping us in terms of both technological innovation and productive capacities, right?
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I once tracked down some of this. Midge Decter lost it when Reagan negotiated with Gorbachev
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Yep. George Will, too. I don't have the reference handy. But he wrote a vicious column in 1987 or '88 warning that Reagan's willingness to make arms-control deals with Gorby was incredibly short-sighted and foolish because the bear was bound to roar again any moment.
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"by succumbing so fully to the arms control chimera, Reagan made it impossible to conduct a coherent conservative foreign policy. Indeed, ... thinking only of U.S.-Soviet relations, a Dukakis presidency might be preferable to a Bush presidency of more Reaganism."
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