>But mostly the right in winning the Cold War.
>And, if I may be so bold, the neocons can take credit for ousting a
>totalitarian regime...
I fear that historians will identify Bush 43 and his neocons as bringing
about the end of the American century. They may not even call it that. It
did not even last a century. The era of American preeminence started with
WW I and ended with the Iraq invasion.
The right wing _started_ the Cold War. They were the military-industrial
complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us against. The Soviet Union was
never as powerful as they claimed. They demonized Soviets who were not
nearly as powerful nor evil as cons claimed as a ruse to build more
expensive weapons. They propped up Saddam Hussein and gave him weapons
to fight Iran. They were the war profiteers who lied in 2002 to go to
war in Iraq even though Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks,
then they stole $billions after carpet-bombing a country that wasn't our
enemy.
The cons made US the enemy. The cons made US the bad guys. Fortunately,
people outside the United States are smarter than many here because they
not only forgive us for having criminals running our country, they
empathize and wish us well--after the trials and convictions.
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