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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (241458)3/24/2002 1:55:53 PM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
While Vietnam was transformed from a minor detail into a major disaster from the early to the late 60's, it was transformed from major disaster back into a minor detail-and major geo-strategic coup in favor of the US-between 1969 and 1973. The entire Cold War was turned around,-and the Soviet Empire collapsed within twenty years-as a result of the US foreign policy from 1969 forward. This world-changing process was set in motion by one of the few geopolitical visionaries in American history: Richard Nixon.

His enemies were the various components of the anti-American left, which seized the Democratic Party in 1970, and who's political fortunes peaked with the corrupt and incompetent Clinton administration of 1993 to 2001. These enemies made their bones by chasing Nixon from office in a minor scandal in 1974, and have been revising history against him ever since. The result is a that a significant portion (though by no means a majority) of the "boomer" generation think of Nixon as a corrupt president, while viewing the lying and lecherous Clinton as unfairly put upon by those who coveted his office.

Such historical revisionism cannot survive for more than a generation, and perhaps it's fortunate that the same boomer liberal minority has so destroyed the education system that few members of subsequent generations even recognize the name Nixon (or Vietnam), while they and their children have been made relative experts on oral sex. In any great movement or empire, one can find the intellectual seeds of its own destruction. For the US empire, that is the American left. But since the left's own ideas create the seeds of ITS own destruction, their long-run attempts to destroy us may still ultimately fail...
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