Reply #120: Neocons had Reagan's ear. They were the ones who pushed

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lack of democracy in the ME in the 1980s. The same gang as pushed for Iraq. They just changed policy in the early 1990s and came up with "democracy for Iraq at any cost" as the solution to the Islamism 1980s policies created in the ME.

They also came up with the plan of making Reagan look like he took out the Russians when the Russians were bankrupt and desperate for a way out by the - well 1960s by some accounts. But in the early 1980s the russians were crying "uncle" and the neos ignored that and built up war capacity & fear and ran the Russians into the ground in Afghanistan.

Always with the toy soldiers that lot. Already then believing they were the ultimate myth-makers.

The neocons were the ones who shut up the people in the State Department who were saying Russia was bankrupt and ready for reform just as Reagan was elected.