Reply #81: Huh?

[lancemurdoch]

I was complimenting the poster for admitting that the Christian Democrats got money from the US, not criticizing him. I said there was an equivalency - the American capitalists funded one side and the Russian bureaucrats funded the other side.

Only in the US do you get this Russian-on-the-brain so much. I was reading a Wall Street Journal editorial recently that said Irish opposition to the British was Moscow-directed. Knowing something about the subject, I found this amusing, as Irish resistance to English/Norman rule goes back to the 12th century, started erupting more post-Cromwell like Wolfe Tone's 18th century rebellion and continues to the present. If the nationalists outbreeding of the unionists in the six counties wasn't soon to make them a majority, they'd still be shooting each other up there probably.

People of this sort of mind are the ones who really can't see reality. Europeans are the only ones who see the Cold War with a clear head - they are skeptical of propaganda coming from the US *and* the USSR. The reality is that the USSR cared little about communist expansionism beyond a bit of land beyond it's contiguous borders around the time Trotsky fled Russia. The Russians actually helped put down a general strike in France in 1968 that may have well turned into a full-scale workers revolution. In fact, in many ways the USSR undermined the left wide of the Spanish Civil War. I find it hard to take most American's seriously when it comes to these things, the Europeans have more perspective.