Ding Dong bin Laden is gone

[JWBear]

You failed to mention the very significant role played be the people living in those communist countries; including some of their leaders. It was a combination of internal and external factors, not just the external ones, that led to the collapse.

Exactly how did Carter prop up communism?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Exactly how did Carter prop up communism?

By allowing our military to decay in the fashion in which it decayed. He also allowed the sale of very high tech (for the day) mainframe computers to the Soviets. He did nothing except react with shock that the leaders of the Soviets invaded Afghanistan a couple of months after meetings in which he hugged and kissed them and called them friends. He appeased their every move. The list of his foreign policy snafus is endless when related to the Soviets.