Berlin Wall Week: Reagan, we win, they lose

When we said thank you President Reagan the other day, we meant thank you President Reagan.

To be a child of the 80's was to be a child of Reagan. 'These were the Reagan kids,' PJ O'Rourke remarked of the young men in Desert Storm.

When some state department flunky asked Reagan his plan for the Cold War he replied simply, 'We win, they lose.' And he meant it. 

Perhaps the greatest weapon in America's arsenal was Reagan's simple, but brilliant rhetoric. Surely Reagan delivered a devastating blow to the Soviet's sense of themselves when he said, 'What do the Soviets have that we would want?'

Reagan understood that the Cold War was not a contest between equals. The United States wasn't just right. We were better. In every way.

Everyone recalls the Morning in America ads, but here's another we found:

When President Reagan talks about children and young people, he's talking about us, down through the mists of time now. We're getting downright emotional watching this.

[He's not kidding-Ed]

This is the world Ronald Reagan made for us, and it is so much better than the one he inherited on January 20th 1981.

We'll say it again, thank you, President Reagan.