New Cold War?
Remember how great things used to be back when we won the Cold War? There was lots of praise to go around - old H.W. could yak about "Mr. Gorbachev - tear down that wall!" The other Repubs could claim that Reagan's disastrous and short-sighted military build-up had anything remotely to do with it.
The real people who won the Cold War - Democrats from Harry Truman to Tip O'Neil - could be gracious to their semi-literate political opponents take an undeserved bow. Really - Repubs wanted to turn the Cold War into a hot war of total annihilation on multiple occasions. It was only the calm and true toughness of Democrats who saw us through to safety.
But this might not be all nostalgia. Since Georgie is putting his $100 billion Edsel of a missile defense shield in Europe, Vlad The Impaler Putin is talking about pointing Russian missiles back that way. You, know, targeting European cities the way they haven't for almost two decades.
What Bush and his Junta clearly don't understand is that when you shove somebody, they're going to shove back. Like, if you brutally occupy a country, its citizens aren't going to bring you milk and cookies on the barricades. They're going to fight you any way they can.
And when you shove your policies around the UN, other nations are going to shove back. And when you put a missile defense system on the border of a nuclear nation - even a system as comically incapable as the one Georgie has had built - they're going to take exception to it.
But how could we have foreseen that the historically touchy Russians would react badly to this development? If only there had been someone who had ever studied Russian history or Cold War relationships who was close enough and loyal enough to get a hearing by Georgie?
Secretary of State Condo Rice has a PhD in International Studies. She's an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe. And now she's bringing back her Cold War.
I'm sure Vlad won't mind. An arms race with bad old America is just the ticket for an old KGB guy to grab that much more power. Putin has rolled back Russian democracy the way Georgie only dreams of in the US. And he does dream of it - make no mistake.
Yes, the Junta that is making Bizarro America - the country that is exactly the opposite of what was founded as a great Republic - is creating a Bizarro Cold War with a Bizarro USSR.
It's popssible that Georgie understands that people have tuned him out on, well, pretty much everything, including terrorism. With out Fear Itself, he and his handlers will go away forever. It's possible (in the sense that there's nothing stupid or destructive that these guys wouldn't do) that they're drumming up a new crisis to get their guys back in the White House in 08.
Because it's worth playing games with the other nuclear superpower in order to gain or maintain Repub power.
How else can you undo 231 years of American history on only 7 years? It's "hard work."
The real people who won the Cold War - Democrats from Harry Truman to Tip O'Neil - could be gracious to their semi-literate political opponents take an undeserved bow. Really - Repubs wanted to turn the Cold War into a hot war of total annihilation on multiple occasions. It was only the calm and true toughness of Democrats who saw us through to safety.
But this might not be all nostalgia. Since Georgie is putting his $100 billion Edsel of a missile defense shield in Europe, Vlad The Impaler Putin is talking about pointing Russian missiles back that way. You, know, targeting European cities the way they haven't for almost two decades.
What Bush and his Junta clearly don't understand is that when you shove somebody, they're going to shove back. Like, if you brutally occupy a country, its citizens aren't going to bring you milk and cookies on the barricades. They're going to fight you any way they can.
And when you shove your policies around the UN, other nations are going to shove back. And when you put a missile defense system on the border of a nuclear nation - even a system as comically incapable as the one Georgie has had built - they're going to take exception to it.
But how could we have foreseen that the historically touchy Russians would react badly to this development? If only there had been someone who had ever studied Russian history or Cold War relationships who was close enough and loyal enough to get a hearing by Georgie?
Secretary of State Condo Rice has a PhD in International Studies. She's an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe. And now she's bringing back her Cold War.
I'm sure Vlad won't mind. An arms race with bad old America is just the ticket for an old KGB guy to grab that much more power. Putin has rolled back Russian democracy the way Georgie only dreams of in the US. And he does dream of it - make no mistake.
Yes, the Junta that is making Bizarro America - the country that is exactly the opposite of what was founded as a great Republic - is creating a Bizarro Cold War with a Bizarro USSR.
It's popssible that Georgie understands that people have tuned him out on, well, pretty much everything, including terrorism. With out Fear Itself, he and his handlers will go away forever. It's possible (in the sense that there's nothing stupid or destructive that these guys wouldn't do) that they're drumming up a new crisis to get their guys back in the White House in 08.
Because it's worth playing games with the other nuclear superpower in order to gain or maintain Repub power.
How else can you undo 231 years of American history on only 7 years? It's "hard work."
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