Obama rewrites the Cold War

[formerlurker]

Obama Rewrites the Cold War
The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies..

By LIZ CHENEY


There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.

Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: "The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful."

The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not "competition in astrophysics and athletics." It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet "sphere of influence" was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124744075427029805.html#printMode


Later that evening, Vladimir Putin enjoyed a nice long laugh while he replayed the speech several times as he knew what he was witnessing was the total pussification of the mighty United States of America....

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Later that evening, Vladimir Putin enjoyed a nice long laugh while he replayed the speech several times as he knew what he was witnessing was the total pussification of the mighty United States of America....

Two points of order:

1. There is no "pussification." Obama has been a ***** from the very beginning.

2. Obama ain't America and it's debatable as to whether or not he's even American. He may be a ***** but we aren't and his time is temporary.

[Chris_]

Two points of order:

1. There is no "pussification." Obama has been a ***** from the very beginning.

2. Obama ain't America and it's debatable as to whether or not he's even American. He may be a ***** but we aren't and his time is temporary.

 

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[formerlurker]

Two points of order:

1. There is no "pussification." Obama has been a ***** from the very beginning.

2. Obama ain't America and it's debatable as to whether or not he's even American. He may be a ***** but we aren't and his time is temporary.

He's the CIC until January 2013.   That is a LONG time for the intents and purposes of Vladimir Putin.   

[NHSparky]

because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful."

Hmmmm...might want to tell that to the folks in Hungary after 1956, or in Czechoslovakia after 1968. 

I'm thinking that Ceausescu's end wasn't exactly peaceful.  And what was it in 1991 that happened in Russia?  Oh yeah--the Communists tried to take the government BACK from Gorbachev in the August Coup.

Sounds like Obama doesn't know his history very well, or is reciting the Zinn/Alinsky/Putin version of events dead on.

[littlelamb]

For someone as smart as he is shouldn't he know history better

[DumbAss Tanker]

He lies about everything else, why not that too?

The domestic discontent component did indeed cause the fall of the USSR in a direct way, but that discontent was the product of a relentless campaign of military, scientific, and economic competition from us, to include semi-covert but intensive subversion of their efforts in Afghanistan.