Posted on 03/02/2006 2:44:52 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
FORMER Soviet leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev has turned 75, bitter that the end of the Cold War has left the United States with what he called a "superiority complex".
"It would be in everyone's interest if that big country America recovered from that disease," he said.
Mr Gorbachev, who launched the democratic and economic reforms that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, described the end of the Cold War as a gift that the United States has squandered.
He also denounced growing Russophobia, saying "some in the West would like to see Russia strangled".
"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 said.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, which dented national prestige, left Mr Gorbachev unpopular at home, with many considering that he served as a Trojan horse for the West.
Exactly. Same euros,russians and now chinese that are jealous and hateful towards the US. Who cares, we will keep doing what we do and they will continue to hate us and spew their ignorant anti-american diatribes. I am proud to have been born here and I have been all over the world. They are no place like the good old USofA and it just drives the eurotrash(your socilialist system is communism lite and destroys innovation) mad. Which is rather hilarious and entertaining!
RE: post #7.
The Energizer Commie... He keeps on lying, and lying, and lying...
In the words of Patrick Swayze's character from Red Dawn before he shot the Communist invader in the face, "YOU LOSE!"
Gorbachev's reforms were an attempt to save the soviet communist system (he said so in his book). Glastnost & Perestroika had the effect of checking the gas level in your tank with match.
This is unfair. The U.S. Constitution is a work of political genius, to be sure. But a lot has happened here since the Constitution was ratified in 1789. In the 1970s we were in danger of losing everything to the socialists. But the American people wisely chose the course of freedom. And we will continue to do so. Was Clarence Thomas lucky to become as capable and visionary as he is? Did he wind up on the Supreme Court by luck? Of course not. Justice Thomas worked hard and according to a vision to become what he is. And he was appointed through the vision and hard work of many others (and he was confirmed despite the strident opposition of the socialists). This is not luck, and it is not a well-crafted system running on auto-pilot. Good things happen because good people conceive of them and then work to make them happen. This is why we have Justice Alito instead of Harriet Meiers. This sort of thing, large and small, happens in America every day. That is why we are still free.
LOL! That just about says it all. Except he has none of Jimmuh's southern charm and personality. Incompetent and droll.
Gorbachev is quite possibly one of the most stupid men to have ever ruled Russia. Upon getting into office, one of his first acts was to attempt to clamp down on alcohol consumption.
In Russia? (As was obvious, the moonshine industry exploded overnight).
Regards, Ivan
He tried and failed, that is his legacy actually
Didn't I say that? I thought I said that. He had no clue what he was doing, it blew up in his face, and he's been scratching his head over it ever since. He even makes Carter look like a political genius.
Putin and Gorbachev shaking hands
Russophobia... Is Gorbachev covering for Vladimir Putin and his corrupt regieme? It seems that that is so.
And why we pay blood, sweat, treasure and tears every day year in year out to make sure we stay that way.
The fundamental force behind the evil empire is envy, the same force that drives the evil left in our country. It's easy to think of envy as a petty emotion however it is really one of the strongest evil forces. It leads to much of the misery on Earth.
The guy on the left.
I still to this day say it is a secret map of the Phillipines
The birthmark changes in shape whenever a new enemy of the U.S. emerges.
Leni
Shut up Gorby.
By the way, the birthmark on your head
is really ugly.
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