The twists of political fate are indeed strange and startling.  That Republican icon, none other than ex-actor and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, is credited with almost single handedly overthrowing Communism.  

When?  When he was at the Berlin Wall, he dramatically declared with all the perfect emphasis his acting career had taught him, "Tear down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev."

Not since the Biblical account of the walls that came tumbling down at Jericho was there such world-wide rejoicing when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.  Some fragments of the demolished Berlin Wall were sold as souvenirs, the symbol of the push for freedom contained in a fragment of history.

But the famous Ronald Reagan slogan, the delightful dream come true for every capitalist in the U.S.A. business brigade was, "Get the government off our backs!"

That is the question!  Exactly why is the U.S. continuing the Iraq War that everyone now knows, the world over, that it was launched on lies?

Can anyone explain why, under President Reagan, we put the most extremist Islamic government, the Taliban, in power?

And now, after training the Taliban with the latest U.S. high-tech weapons exactly why are we suddenly determined to overthrow the Taliban?  Could all of the botched Middle East series of battles have anything to do with oil?  Dare we ask?

When the "weapons of mass destruction" war cry hysteria proved phony, Bush suddenly declared that all of the fighting and dying was to deliver democracy to the Iraqis and it would spread to the entire Middle East.