Growing up during the Cold War I actually thought about the fact that one day all of the jingoistic Cold Warriors (on both sides) that were preventing peace, while ratcheting up hate and fear and spending trillions on ‘defense’ over all those decades….would some day be dead.
That until the folks with that mindset were well and truly gone the black and white reactionary views they represented would rule the world.
Now, with Cheney and Rumsfeld soon heading for whatever imaginative and exquisite hell they have fully earned and wholly deserve, there is only one left with any real power, any shot of continuing to enforce that mindset….John McCain.
Yesterday dharmasyd asked our Congress: “Why do you have such an aversion to the word socialism?” The answer is the Cold War.