Obama to End Three More Wars: Vietnam and Cold War Finally Over, Civil War Next

[Stellar]

Obama to End Three More Wars: Vietnam and Cold War Finally Over, Civil War Next


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/obama-to-end-three-more-w_b_7731666.html

Put aside ending the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They weren't so much divisive as the American people changed their mind, once the lying stopped. Ending them was relatively easy.

Obama is now taking on the tough ones. He's moving to end the Vietnam War and the Cold War and even the Civil War.

It's not easy to cast aside long-held habits and vocabulary. Republicans and Democrats alike have cherished Cold War rhetoric as an essential campaign meme to the present day. You can still hear remnants of McCarthy-like accusations of communist and socialist inclinations. Former Congressman Allen West has a specific number: "I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party who are members of the Communist Party." And Rudy Giuliani led the Republican assertions that Obama was under "Communist influence." And the repeated chant of slavery's ideological cousin, "states' rights," resounds today on gay marriage or any other issue the Republicans face.

[TexasProgresive]

1. The Cold War has never ended

It is just in détente. Nuclear weapons around the world are still aimed at Russian, European, Chinese and U.S. targets. Russian forces are probing the defenses of neighbors with impunity. I would say that the Cold War is still on and could go at any time from détente to the kind of alert that was present in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

[Stellar]

4. That's scary. n/t

[Wilms]

2. Really? The cold war just re-started.

With the help of Victoria Nuland and USAID, of course.

[geek tragedy]

3. you forgot to complain about cookies, nt

[Wilms]

5. I think it was stale donuts.

Want some?

[geek tragedy]

6. looks better than what the Russians were serving nt

[Wilms]

8. I don't think it was the right thing to do.

And that's before considering the fall out.

[n2doc]

7. 5000 days of continuous war and counting this century

http://www.arpc.afrc.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/267/Article/602661/5000-days-of-war.aspx

On June 27, the 17th Special Tactics Squadron marked 5,000 days of unremitting war.

Their 5,000-day epoch began in October 2001, one month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when the 17th STS deployed to Southwest Asia with the U.S. Army Rangers. Since then, the squadron has been continuously deployed for almost 14 years in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.