The Daily Background

So apparently the President is comparing the struggle against global violent extremism, (or whatever they’re calling it these days) to the Cold War. Cause you know, that one was such a great war. The Cold War, in case you don’t remember kids, was the “war” which lasted decades, and embroiled in it a thousand other little conflicts (you know, like the Vietnam War– that was a little conflict, as was the Korean War, or the secret illegal bombing of Cambodia, or U.S. covert operations in Afghanistan, etc etc etc).

Yes, the Cold War was fought because American leaders had the arrogant opinion that they had the right to dictate what type of government sovereign nations like chose to have.

Mmm, yes the Cold War, the war in which Americans kept in constant fear of atomic explosions wiping out all civilization. Good times. The war during which liberal Americans were hauled before congress to testify about their own political beliefs, and if those beliefs didn’t match up with the conservative congressmen who were literally putting them on trial– they would be blacklisted and never be able to find work again, or worse; wrongly thrown in prison. A time of massive dissent stifling.

Yes, the Cold War was a really great time for America. Unprecedented amount of money were being spent on producing mass numbers of nuclear weapons; hundreds of times the amount needed to plunge the entire planet into nuclear winter a hundred times over.

The Cold War was a war in which Americans were taught to hate peoples who had been their allies previously, and who had fought side by side for freedom with America against Nazi Germany– just because these former allies had different political beliefs and chose to have a different form of government. A form of government that was not acceptable to have, according to those in power in the United States at the time.

The President says “this is only the beginning.” How repulsive. AP article.

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