re: #97 Dianna

Not exactly a beef, more like a series of observations. He blew it in Lebanon, he blew it on that one hijacker, and he seriously blew it with amnesty. There were other things, but most of them are quibbles.

I just don’t view him as St. Ronnie, the way my brother (for instance) does.

I think he got a series of small to middlin’ things wrong, and two or three Big Things very right.

I think he and Margaret Thatcher more or less saved Western Civilization (at least for a while).

By the way, I also think he blew it with Iran/Contra… I’d add that to the list. But still.