Excellent, enlightening point that should wise-up the fawning Reagan devotees -- but most likely won't:

Newly released Soviet documents reveal that Reagan indeed played a role in ending the cold war. Yet, it was not so much because of SDI or the support of anti-Soviet forces around the world. Rather, it was the sudden emergence of another Reagan, a peacemaker and supporter of nuclear disarmament--whom conservatives opposed--that rapidly produced a new U.S.-Soviet détente. This détente facilitated Gorbachev's radical overhaul of Soviet domestic and foreign policy--changes that brought the USSR crashing down and that would have been impossible had Reagan remained the hawk conservatives now celebrate.

-- Vladislav M. Zubok, The New Republic, 6/21/04