The above account of the Cold War smells like CNN's moral equivalence.
Per The Black Book of Communism 100,000,000 were murdered by Communists.
CNN likes to call the pukes who cut Olin Edward Armstrong's head off "militants".
What I call CNN is [expletive deleted].
The work of Senator Joseph McCarthy was vindicated by the publication of the Venona decrypts.
One very useful summary is Ann Coulter, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Crown, 2003.
Coulter's Acknowledgements begins with "Deserving of the most hysterical liberal blacklisting for helping me with this book are: M. Stanton Evans, the world's leading authority on Senatory Joseph McCarthy. . . ."
As I never tire of recalling, I had the pleasure to watch Evans, then editor of the Indianapolis News slice, dice and julienne Dr. Robert Risk of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union in 1964.
Afterwards fellow YAFers and I had a shouting match with Risk's hangers-on, bearded marxists no doubt from under rocks at IU where R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. would've been keeping their heads down with withering barbs.
The same ComSympstm are alive and well today--
Case in point, Jean FifthColumn Kerry, who told Fulbright the racist Clinton-mentor "we cahn't fight Communism all over the globe, and I thought we should've learned that lesson by now."
Strobe Talbott at the end of the reign of traitorrapist42 predicted the withering away of the nation state--yet all we see is the withering away of the Kerry Koup attempt on the last bastion of capitalist freedom.
Ted Turner, what is the Western equivalent to Stassi machinegunning Berliners scrambling to freedom, or Fidel sinking and drowning the ferryboat fugitives from the Cuban paradise of universal literacy and exquisite health care?
Thanks to Ronald Reagan--whom John Forges Kerry "proudly" opposed--we defeated the Soviet drive for world domination.
Not peaceful coexistence, not moral equivalence, not UN-brokered conflict resolution--
American resolute strength beat Soviet corrupt totalitarianism.
And John Kerry and Dan Rather and Ted Kennedy and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings and Katie Couric et al were and remain deeply saddened.
To these I say a profound nyah nyah nyah nyah.
In other news, CBS' Dan Rather announced he would apologize and resign "when Hell freezes over".
