Diabolical commie plot:
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today called on U.S. presidential candidates to develop alternatives to the use of military power, decrying what he called “increasingly visible signs of the militarization of politics and thinking in the modern world … even though the military route again and again leads to a dead-end.”
Writing in the the Russian government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Gorbachev said the Bush administration has shown a tendency to “seek to address these problems primarily through threats and pressure. Will the candidates develop an alternative approach to these most crucial problems? This is now the main question.”
Russia? Or the old Soviet Union:
MOSCOW – Russia threatened Tuesday to react militarily if Washington erects defence installations on its Cold War turf, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a deal with the Czech Republic.
“If a US strategic anti-missile shield is deployed near our borders, we will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military resources,” a foreign office statement said.
“There is no doubt that the grouping of elements of the strategic US arsenal faced towards Russian territory” could lead Moscow to “take adequate measures to face the threats to its national security,” it added.
How’s it feel to be on the other side of that saber-rattling?
remember- the chimp voided the arms reduction treaty. along with other international treaties.
if there is a history and someone arites about this period and its legacy, i cannot believe that he will not be described as the most evil person of this era.
I hate that I am reading a position by a former USSR prime minister; a country that I was raised to believe was not just our military enemy but our moral one as well; and I am nodding my head in supporting this statement.
I can only imagine the smiles on the faces of the captains of the military-industrial complex.
The communists have gotten to you. They are very wily.
recommended reading: iran: the threat
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I have to recommend very strongly Jim Douglass’s new book “JFK and the Unspeakable” re how Kennedy and Kruschev togther tried to end the Cold War, and how both paid a heavy price for that. The book is about much more than that, but it opens with a chapter focused on Kennedy’s determination to reverse our runaway course towards first use of nuclear weapons. He must be turning in his grave to see all he tried to do so undone in the last several years.
Seriously though – get the book. It’s about Kennedy, his assassination, and the forces Kennedy was fighting. It’s also an incredibly moving and eloquent work. I was reading in public and fighting back tears – something I rarely have to deal with when reading a book on any subject! 😉
In the bizarro world that the Supreme Court created for us in December, 2000, the United States has assumed the role previously held by the old Soviet Union, and is careering towards a similar foreign policy debacle. We were able to bankrupt the Soviets because they had essentially bankrupted themselves as a result of their invasion of Afghanistan and the mismanagement of their economy to the benefit of cronies of the Kremlin. I’m not claiming the United States is totalitarian — if you spent any time in the old USSR you would understand what living under that kind of regime is like — but it displays much of the same disfunctionality.
The Soviets, Chinese and even the Iranians can counter our military efforts at far less cost than what it costs us to assert them. This is not a big secret. From here on in the rest of the world will be using the US as a hedge against Chinese or Soviet dominance, but we won’t be an independent player any more.