Gorbachev chides US for 'superiority'

Herald Sun ^ | 3 March 2006 | Marina Lapenkova

[weegee]

Would the Commie care to point out which country is better overall?

[hgro]

Anyone who has ever had to opportunity to actually see Russia personally will know that Gorby is full of it. The Russion country side and villages are pathetic. Living conditions in the former commie paradise big cities by any standard are the same. The evidence in just one area is the rampant alcoholism of people trying to retreat from their miserable lives.

[ImpotentRage]

Doesn't the "bitter" Mr. Gorbachev live here in the United States? Doesn't he have some sort of foundation that is headquartered in San Francisco? Seems to me I read that somewhere. Perhaps he likes the living conditions, etc., that this country with the "superiority complex" is able to afford him.

[mkjessup]

Pay no attention to Gorby, he is obligated to occasionally spout off with some anti-U.S. rhetoric, so nobody begins to believe the rumors that he was in fact, the most well placed and well paid CIA mole to ever burrow into the Kremlin, all the way to the top.

NICE JOB GORBY! :)

PS- You ARE getting direct deposit now, aren't you? So much easier than having to sign and deposit those checks each month, know what I mean? ;)

[razoroccam]

Tragic thing is that if Russia had been free, open, and democratic, companies such as Sikorski (helicopters) and MGM would have been in Russia, and not the US.

It is amazing, being an immigrant myself, that other countries do not recognize this simple fact - it is freedom (economic, political, religious), and if a country denies it to its citizens, it will never amount to much in the long term.

[dfwgator]

Alright, alright, I guess I should have indicated the statement was made somewhat toungue-in-cheek.

_{But we really are better. :)}

[Cyclopean Squid]

From one of history's most inept leaders (second only to Mao, in my opinion).

[dfwgator]

Mao may have been evil, but hardly inept in terms of keeping his power. Now Jimmy Carter, that's inept.

[oldleft]

He knew the Soviet Union was going to collapse so he instigated some market reforms in an attempt to save the country. The last thing he wanted was a disintegration of the Soviet Union.

[newnhdad]

Gorbawho? I didn't know he was still alive. Last time I saw this bozo he was licking Ronald Reagan's shoes.

[mountn man]

Russia (USSR) attacks Afghanistan for what, 14 years? And retreat leaving destruction and mamed children.

The US attacks Afghanistan (the Taliban) and removes government from power in what 2 months? And while we are still there, we are building schools and hospitals, and utility infrastructures. Pushing Afghanistan into the modern world (or at least into the later 19th century).

Superiority? No air of superiority here. Its all fact.

[Cyclopean Squid]

No, the Great Leap Forward is the policy of a simpleton who had no understanding of reality. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was pure chaos and completely disastrous. Mao was a great revolutionary, but an awful ruler.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The Soviets had a neurotic inferiority complex for 70 years.........well deserved.

[BunnySlippers]

I'm thinking of Daniel Pipes's opinion piece in the WSJ this week. Fits this to a tee.

[BunnySlippers]

The Jimmuh Carter of Russia.

[prophetic]

Would the Commie care to point out which country is better overall?

and besides being nearky piss poor, they are still pouring 45% of their budget into weapons & nukes like the cold war never ended!!

[F16Fighter]

"Russia, with its enormous intellectual and military potential, and control of 42 per cent of the world's natural reserves, elicits fear in the West, and even our friends today fear a renaissance of the Russian empire," he [Gorbachev] said.

Despite his having a gorbasm as he made this pronouncement, Russia "elicits fear in the fact" only because it is notoriously treacherous, duplicitous, and paranoid.

This make it unworthy of trust.

[mkjessup]

That's only because we really are better than everybody else.

It's the system that is better and you just happened to be lucky enough to be born into it. Your comment basically reinforces his claim. Arrogance is greatest before a fall. Perhaps you should try and stay humble as God would have you.

Well SOMEBODY had to build that system, it didn't just appear magically in 1776.

America has given more to the world, and asked for damn near nothing in return, more than any other nation on Earth. When there is a disaster in the world, it is America that everyone turns to with their hand stretched out for help. When the oppressed are praying for freedom, it is invariably America who delivers that freedom to them. America has given away billions upon billions of dollars to those in need, only to be pissed on by ungrateful slobs who lack the intellectual firepower to resist the never-ending America-hating which is a regular staple of the Euro-weenie crowd, who had to depend on America not once, but twice, to save them from tyrants run amok.

Even post 9/11, the #1 destination of immigrants all over the world is America, they swim, they sail, they walk, they crawl, they fly, they DIE in their efforts to reach U.S. soil and the freedoms and opportunities that America represents.

What you are mistaking for arrogance in Dfwgator is pride in his Country, which isn't misplaced. There is an old saying, something along the lines of "it ain't braggin, if it's true". And the truth is, Americans are among the most generous and compassionate people on the face of the planet, and were it not for the United States and Ronald Reagan, YOU my FRiend from Germany just might be answering to the likes of Erich Honecker even today. Make no mistake about it, due to the perseverence and courage of leaders like Reagan and Thatcher, the West won the Cold War, and Soviet Communism died, and not a moment too soon.

Does that make Americans better than everyone else? That's not up to me to say, but the world sure forgets in a hurry that they were only one superpower away from a global Soviet Empire until that final collapse of the U.S.S.R.

You're Welcome.

[lawgirl]

sour grapes?

[PsyOp]

Having a well deserved "superiority complex" is better than a well deserved "inferiority complex". As for who has squandered the gift of the end Cold War, I would suggest it is Russia, not, not America who pissed it away.

You're a "Loser" Gorby. Reagan in his grave is more of man than you are today.