Using the two quotes explain which policy in your opinion was more effective in ending the cold war, President Reagan’s patience in dealing with Gorbachev or the threat of war through the arms race?

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The war economy provides comfortable niches for tens of thousands of bureaucrats in and out of military uniform, who go to the office every dayto build nuclear weapons or to plan nuclear war; millions of workers whose jobs depend on the system of nuclear terrorism; scientists and engineers designed to look out for that final technological breakthrough that can provide total security; contractors unwilling to give up easy profits; warrior intellectuals who sell threats and bless wars."

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Colin Powell once wrote, "Ronald Reagan . . . had the vision and flexibility, lacking in many Cold Warriors, to recognize that Gorbachev was a new man in a new age offering new opportunities for peace."