Well Carl, we can all believe what we like, and if people
think Gorby was at war, cold or hot, with the USA, then I
think that's not far off paranoid schizophrenia. In
fact, reading the definition, that's exactly what it is.
dictionary.com
<delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy);
symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and
doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of
schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if
delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently
normal manner>
How about that! Heheh... [yeah, yeah, I know, there are
really genuinely mentally ill people and I probably
shouldn't make such comparisons, but when on the sharp end
of a nuke, I can imagine the comparison isn't all bad.
Gorby wasn't interested in or fighting for Alaska, which
was a purchase with cash a century or so before. The
Estonians and other soviet states were part of an internal
civil conflict leading to their independence. They were
not agents of the USA or Nato.
It's a bit scary for innocent bystanders when big,
powerful, paranoid schizophrenics go ape. Let's hope
those with a good attachment to reality hold the day in
the White House. It was worrying in the mid 1980s when
Gorby took over and the USA didn't understand that
the world was different. Even now, people right here,
[like you Carl], thought there was still a Stalinist-style
cold war on.
After a few years, people caught on and Gorby-mania
took over from delusional paranoid schizophrenia.
At the moment, the socialist revolution remains in full
swing from Helengrad to Governor Gray's office and
California. Around the world, electorates vote for state
control and state ownership and state this that and the
other. Heck, we even have right here in this discussion,
Hawkmoon and Unclewest advocating state ownership of the
means of production [through conscription] for a couple of
years and direction of those people to approved
activities.
Yep, freedom is pretty thin on the ground. I think the
USA lost the ideological cold war because it was a war of
ideas rather than territory [yes, there was plenty of
territorial conflict too]. The USSR lost it too. The
outcome was a mishmash, somewhere in the middle, with
hefty state control from Vladivostok westwards to Hawaii.
Mqurice
PS: I'm watching tv and Tiger Woods playing golf at Paraparaumu, where he yesterday missed a 90cm putt. Ouch... |
