Posted on 10/14/2006 5:23:31 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Contrary to what these so-called news reporters lead their readers to believe, ex-Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbechev did NOT help us "end the cold war" in any other way but to LOSE it! He was not on the same level with Ronald Reagan who is really the one responsible for ending the Cold War.
I have seen this many, many times, but it is always a good idea to continue pointing out this bias to keep people aware of just what Gorbachev's role was in the Cold War. "News" services like Reuters continue to uplift Gorby to the level of benevolent leader and kindly grandfather for helping us "end the cold war". But it just isn't true at all. Should Gorby have had his way, Russia would STILL be under the crushing thumb of the U.S.S.R. and its oppressive system.
Reagan BEAT Gorby and his Communist regime. Gorby did not have an epiphany and suddenly become a loving capitalist and benevolently dismantle Communism to end the Cold War.
It's just that simple.
But, here we have Reuters in their story, U.S. wasted chance to improve the world: Gorbachev, reporting Gorby's latest doggerel and, once again, giving Gorby credit for "ending the Cold War".
BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a key role in ending the Cold War, said the United States had squandered an opportunity to improve global politics after the Cold War, a paper said on Friday.Gorby has been quoted many times over the last 30 years telling all who will bother with the old loser that the USA is on the downward spiral. His talk is mindless blather that is backed up only by his own personal failure. It's amazing anyone pays any attention to the stained, old goat.
I won't bore you with his "analysis" of the day's events, but would like to wonder aloud about one more part of the Reuters story.
The piece quotes Gorby several times, but also has what seems like interpretations of what he said in unquoted segments. Here is one of those:
He said the United States and other Western countries had missed an opportunity to make the world a better place after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 ushered in the end of communism.Now, did Reuters not put quotes there because they are interpreting his words instead of quoting them? And could it mean that it is Reuters who imagines that it was the "end of communism" when the Berlin wall fell? Because, surely, Gorby isn't even stupid enough to imagine that communism is gone off the face of the earth since the Berlin wall fell?
After all, we still have China and Cuba at the very least. And, last time I checked, they are still commies!
Anyway, when do we get to see a Reuters story that credits Reagan with "ending the Cold War"?
Maybe when communism REALLY ends?
Probably not even then.
Indeed. Hitler and Tojo ended WWII the same way.
A poor analogy, considering what happened to Japan and Germany in the process.
Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany wound up on the same "ash heap of history" that the Soviet Union did.
Hmmm. And here I thought I was only making a little joke. Now I'm on the lam from the analogy cops....
LOL.....no, your 'analogy' was actually pretty dead-on.
Doesn't Gordy Live in Org. or Wash state now?
OH pleaseeeezz Reuters
You just tick off that Certain Warner Bros actor made your fav soviet leader Gorby his b***h LOL!
Indeed.
LOL
I remember about five or six years ago Gorby made a speech where he admitted the Soviet system was nothing but a sham. Anyone out there remember exactly where and when he said that. Aside from Rush and a couple of others on talk radio the media ignored Gorby's admission (surprise surprise).
I guess Reagan just happened to be in office when the soviets fell, just like all of the people McCarthy accused of being communists just "happened" to be communists after all.
Burning the midnight oil at the Ministry of Truth.
For the freeper who ask where does Gorbey lives he live in Frisco and NY he travel in between remember in mid 1990s old school Miltary base in Frisco Presidto was transfer to Gorbervev foundation
Thank to Far Leftist former Cali Senator Alan Cranston another Gorby little b***h
He deserves credit because he steered the system towards dismantlement. He took steps in that direction, not actually passively watched as it collapsed. Under a different leadership the Soviet system might have been steered towards "the final confrontation" (read, nuclear) with the West, going out with a bang instead of a wimper. If Andropov had lived and stayed in power, I could see him realizing that USSR was falling behind more and more in hi-tech department and starting some kind of desperate "Red Storm Rising" scenario (before the gap grew even larger), which, unlike the book, would escalate to a full nuclear war. All those SS-20s in Eastern Europe weren't BB guns.
During his brief time in power, Andropov already started to push for austerity measures internally, basically the initial stages of mobilizing the Soviet society.
I went to listen to Gorby speak once, it was a video-cast around the country, he along with several other speakers. He bashed Bush during his speech (this was about two years ago), everyone in the room where I was booed him. It was well deserved.
"Indeed. Hitler and Tojo ended WWII the same way."
That's the kind of blunt truth that needs to be thrown back at those who spew stupidty.
But not as fully oxidized.
Rush Limbaugh had a term for this. When the media began to just fall all over themselves praising Gorbachev, Rush called it a " media Gorbasm".
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