Like many other geezers, I watched CNN with rapt attention as the Berlin Wall came down. It was the beginning of the end for Communism, though at the time many of us either didn’t realize it, or didn’t dare to dream it. Communism, and its twisted cousin Socialism, formed the most vile political/economic forms ever to disgrace human history. And thus the fall of Communism is something that should be remembered and recalled with some clarity and context.
Unless, of course, you happen to be a President who actually seems to *like* Communism. In that case, you phone in a short platitude-filled speech, but somehow seem to fail to remember just what the hell was actually going on.
As posted on the Powerline Blog:
Obama’s brief remarks are an exercise in bowdlerization, circumlocution, evasion. Omitted from the remarks, among other things, is any mention of the Soviet Union or Communism, Harry Truman or Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher or Pope John Paul. Obama neither decries the villains nor salutes the heroes of the story. Rather, Obama celebrates himself. He is an agent of destiny. He is the fulfillment of history.
Be sure to watch the video of Obamas speech.
Obama had precisely *zero* to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet he manages to insert himself into the story. Back when I was hunting Nazis in the desert sands outside Da Nang, there was nothing more that I and my Special Forces cyborgs hated more than someone who had to inflate their own ego by trying to jam their own importance into past events that they didn’t have anything to do with.
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I’m sure those memories are “seared” into his brain too 😉
By this “Back when I was hunting Nazis in the desert sands outside Da Nang” I assume you meant Vietnam war time. If then I strongly disagree over the using of “Nazis” to indicate your opponents in that war. We did not start WWII, and we did not any Holocaust-like either.
> We did not start WWII
I also doubt you have too many deserts outside of Da Nang. Additionally, I was *2* when the US withdrew.
Here’s a lesson, kids: “sarcasm” is one of those concepts that doesn’t seem to translate across languages/cultures all that well. I figured the reference to “cyborgs” would have been enough, but maybe I should’ve said something more like “giant tentacle-raping fighting robots.”
> we did not any Holocaust-like either
Apart from the 165,000 Vietnamese who died in post-war Communist “re-education camps”, many of those your Communist government would have sent to the ovens managed to escape. There’s a reason *why* the population of the US grew by 823,000 Vietnamese.