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Your favourite flawed end-of-cold-war hero?

Started by Martinus, April 11, 2013, 09:44:33 AM

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Today, which of the flawed end-of-cold-war heroes you like/respect/admire the most?

Reagan
9 (20.9%)
Thatcher
8 (18.6%)
John Paul II
7 (16.3%)
Kohl
1 (2.3%)
Mitterand
3 (7%)
Walesa
1 (2.3%)
Gorbachev
14 (32.6%)

Total Members Voted: 43

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Martinus

April 11, 2013, 09:44:33 AM
They all prove to be quite flawed, yet they still have huge followings globally. So which one is your favorite?

Viking

#1
April 11, 2013, 09:48:17 AM
Who's the troll who voted for Miterrand?
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

11B4V

#2
April 11, 2013, 10:04:07 AM
Thatcher. Great leader and cold warrior.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Martinus

#3
April 11, 2013, 10:07:06 AM
Quote from: Viking on April 11, 2013, 09:48:17 AM
Who's the troll who voted for Miterrand?

I did. He stands above all others, being a wonderful human being.

The Brain

#4
April 11, 2013, 10:24:32 AM
Reagan. Sentimental reasons.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Queequeg

#5
April 11, 2013, 10:26:01 AM
Vaclav Havel.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Barrister

#6
April 11, 2013, 10:26:57 AM
Any love for Brian Mulroney?
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

The Brain

#7
April 11, 2013, 10:33:43 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 11, 2013, 10:07:06 AM
Quote from: Viking on April 11, 2013, 09:48:17 AM
Who's the troll who voted for Miterrand?

I did. He stands above all others, being a wonderful human being.

Because his feet are in your face?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Barrister

#10
April 11, 2013, 10:50:12 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 11, 2013, 10:46:33 AM
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2013, 10:26:57 AM
Any love for Brian Mulroney?

Not sure what he had to do with being a cold war warrior.

The word "warrior" does not appear anywhere in the original question.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

crazy canuck

#11
April 11, 2013, 10:51:06 AM
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2013, 10:50:12 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 11, 2013, 10:46:33 AM
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2013, 10:26:57 AM
Any love for Brian Mulroney?

Not sure what he had to do with being a cold war warrior.

The word "warrior" does not appear anywhere in the original question.

Ok hero.  Not sure what he had to do with being a cold war hero

Grinning_Colossus

#12
April 11, 2013, 10:53:00 AM
I remember, as a young child, noticing that the guy with the thing on his face whom we were supposed to like wasn't on the news anymore and asking my mother what happened to him. So I voted for him.
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Eddie Teach

#13
April 11, 2013, 10:57:36 AM
Ray-Gun.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Martinus

#14
April 11, 2013, 10:58:59 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 11, 2013, 10:26:01 AM
Vaclav Havel.

Good point. I'd vote for him over Mitterand.
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