Lock The Door To Islam || Geert Wilders

[abaris]

I doubt that greatly.  It's one thing to opine upon all of the ways that the US isn't a paragon of virtue (as though it were supposed to be?).  It's another to mythologize the soviet union of cold war fame.  Both nations spun the same, ridiculous, "we';re the good guys" propaganda.

One of the reasons why I never participated in the peace movement in the early 80ies. Being in our late teens back then, we were largely idealistic and hoped for a better world. Yet I saw no reason to march before and to protest the US embassy if they left out the Soviets. My idea was to form a chain between both of them to let them know we didn't stand for it. But the others didn't follow up on that idea. I was as concerned over the SS20 as I was over the Pershings and I didn't want any of them in my larger neighbourhood.

But my impression has changed a lot over the years. Not as far as history is concerned but as far as today's USA is concerned. From an outside perspective it looks to me as if certain interested parties are actively looking for enemies. To justify the unimaginable costs of that behemoth of an army and, of course the military industrial complex. To also justify the presence at nearly a thousand outposts around the globe.

To me it almost seems to be Orwellian.