Old Craet wrote:Transoxthraxia wrote:Also the overwhelming centralization dispute certainly didn't help to cool heads in the mid-19th. Nixon was a good leader, in my opinion. Well, until Watergate. But because he tried to cheat doesn't mean that before that moment he was a bad leader. He manoeuvred the Russians into disadvantage in a diplomatic sense and began setting up the eventual downfall of the USSR through the process of the Cold War arms race that was later taken up by Reagan.
Yeah, but then again, Nixon pulling us out of 'Nam had its problems. When the soldiers, who dealt with shit no one had truly experienced yet (Damn Guerrilla Viet Cong), came home, many people were fucking asshat douchebag bastards to them. I don't know about you, but if anything, one of the worst things you can do I be a asshole to a returning soldier. Now if Nixon had been a little smarter about this, then people wouldn't have been asshats. Yeah, Civil War is bad, but insulting a returning soldiers is worse. In my opinion. But if anything, Mr. Josef Stalin was possibly the worst leader ever.
Nixon was a bad leader because other people were jerks?