Reagan: Respected world leader; SFB: World's bufoon

Left Libs like Jon Stewart and Bob Beckel are saying that Ronald Reagan’s response to the Soviet shoot down of Korean Air flight 007 was no different from King SFB’s response to Russians downing MH 17.  Au contraire, there is one rather huge difference.  Reagan was a respected and yes feared world leader.  SFB ain’t.

Reagan didn’t issues red lines and then crap himself when they were ignored by cowards.  Reagan didn’t present the Soviets with a mistranslated “rest button”.  He called them the “evil empire.”  Regan didn’t say Bassar Assad was a reformer, then have to counter march and call for his removal, then have to march by the left flank while Assad - safely ensconced in Damascus - gave him the finger.  Reagan didn't comfort enemies and chide friends.

Reagan didn’t go to war over the Korean Air shoot down.  He put missiles in Europe.  He confronted the Soviets at every turn.  He built the up the US military in manner that drove the decrepit Soviet economy further into the dumps.  Most of all he changed the calculus in the Kremlin.  The Soviet hardliners knew that wherever they went, so to would Reagan.  Reagan put the Soviet Union on the path to ending up on the “ash heap of history.”

Regan was like the no nonsense dad who could correct his child’s misbehavior with nothing more than a stern look.  The kids took him seriously.  They knew “the look.”  They knew there would be serious consequences if their foolishness continued.  They stopped it after the first look.  For friends, Reagan was like the neighbor who had all the tools, knew how to use them and was always willing to lend a helping hand.  For enemies, Reagan was like the sheriff in the old movies who rides into town and begins organizing the town’s people to stand up to the gang who had been terrorizing them.

King SFB is the Homer Simpson of world leaders.  Everyone knows he’s a buffoon.  His kids ignore and taunt him.  His friends wouldn’t trust him to take out the trash.  His enemies prey on his azzbaggery.

And ain’t it weird that the left Libs who have spent so much of their time trying paint Reagan as doddering old warmonger are now saying King SFB is just like him?