tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5760993.post4427669129348514521..comments2024-03-17T10:32:01.495+02:00Comments on From the Rock: Highlanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16532761296990891687noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5760993.post-23207497583367031922009-12-26T02:13:43.960+02:002009-12-26T02:13:43.960+02:00LOL Craig - I thought the Brits would be more leve...LOL Craig - I thought the Brits would be more level headed re the cold war, but I think everyone was involved one way or the other in that war.Highlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16532761296990891687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5760993.post-493961991543477962009-11-25T00:01:26.487+02:002009-11-25T00:01:26.487+02:00"How much they were afraid that a nuclear war..."How much they were afraid that a nuclear war on them would take place (and they still do but a bit less now, forgetting they were the only nation who had ever used nukes on humans)"<br />Highlander, you are clearly implying that rulers of other nations (and also NGOs of other nations, because today they also have the chance to lay their hands on nukes) are so much better than Americans that they wouldn't use nukes on humans, so Americans have nothing to fear.<br />I think this is a very, very serious claim to make.<br />Anyway, I admit I sometimes don't quite understand the stress put on the technology used to murder humans. I think the act of murder and the intention behind it are more important. I don't wish murderers using less technology to get away.<br />About a decade before USA killed several hundred thousands of Japanese by nuclear bombs during a war, Soviet government killed several millions of Ukrainians by deliberately starving them to death. There was no civil war, not even anti-government rallies. The Ukrainians just didn't like the idea of collective farming.<br />Anybody remembering this? Or, God forbid, caring about this?<br />It seems that a victim of violent death is truly dead only if killed by US (or Israeli) troops.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5760993.post-31494913235125715432009-11-24T15:10:43.813+02:002009-11-24T15:10:43.813+02:00As a survivor of communism, I wouldn't call fe...As a survivor of communism, I wouldn't call fear of communism "paranoia". Neither would I find anything wrong with hatred to communism and those who try to spread it. This is just a normal reaction of a thinking and compassionate human being. As a Russian dissident mentioned, anticommunism is the natural reaction of a normal human when you are showing him communism.<br />Communism kills on a mass scale (at least a five-digit number per country) and incarcerates on a mass scale (in every single Communist country, during a period there have been so many prisoners that prisons could not accomodate them and concentration camps were built). Moreover, communism maims and destroys souls. Before communism, Bulgaria saved its Jews from the Nazis. During communism, it forcibly renamed its Muslims. Isn't this telltale?<br />Not talking about destroying the economy and dooming survivors to poverty for generations - as I wrote not far ago on this blog, we don't care much for damn money.<br />I am very thankful to Americans for saving a part of Europe from communism and for trying to save the people of Vietnam and other Asian countries.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5760993.post-88249330458740887332009-11-20T23:55:00.624+02:002009-11-20T23:55:00.624+02:00I did not realise how much the ordinary American p...<i>I did not realise how much the ordinary American people feared communism to the extent of paranoia and hatred.</i><br /><br />You didn't? Really!? I'm surprised! The Cold War was at the heart of US foreign policy for 40 years!<br /><br /><i>How much they were afraid that a nuclear war on them would take place ( and they still do but a bit less now, forgetting they were the only nation who had ever used nukes on humans ) and how much this fear had warped the thinking. </i><br /><br />I don't think our thinking was warped at all. If it had been warped, there probably wouldn't be any human life on earth right now. <br /><br /><i>How much they were seeking WMD to give them a tactical advantage.</i><br /><br />A tactical advantage? How can there be any such thing as a "tactical advantage" when both sides have the unchallenged capacity to utterly annihilate the other? There was no winning scenario in a nuclear conflict between the US and the USSR, which is what made it so frightening. At least to Americans and presumably Russians. If others were not frightened by the prospects it's probably because they were naive enough to think the US and the USSR would just destroy eachother and that their regions would be left largely unscathed.<br /><br />Anyway, good post! I enjoyed reading it :)<br /><br />PS-What are you up to with using a British source for explaining US Cold War mentality!? :pprogrammer craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566950406349754166noreply@blogger.com