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Karen Watters Cole wrote:[snip]
Remember it was Reagan who said to Gorby, take down this wall. Now we are assisting in raising another one
Ronnie IV (or whoever will reside in the WhiteHouse then) will never shout "Tear down this wall, Mr Sharon!", because the Israel lobby is clearly more powerful than the Soviet lobby in D.C. was...
I was thinking along the same lines.
There never was a Soviet lobby in D.C.: What there was was called espionage agents (oh, yes, there were also the "fellow travellers").
I hypothesize there are still a lot of persons in the former USSR, who never sent anybody to the Gulag or did any other evil, who would gladly trade what they've got now for what they had under Khruschev. I also believe there was a different way that the USSR could have transitioned into freedom: with a parachute instead of us just watching the plane fall out of the sky.
Ronnie: "Pretty good the way that wall fell down,
eh, George?"
BushI: "The best thing since the loaves and fishes,
Mr. President."
Goddforesakenistan citizen: "Did someone say there
were loaves and fishes somewhere?"
Bertolt Brecht's ghost: "They did indeed, in
Palestine and 1950 years ago. What they
were referring to is that you are lucky
because now you are free even if you are
also hungry." (Somewhere near Paris, Vladimir and Estragon, mesmeriszed
still by Jean-Paul Sartre's irresponsible existentialism,
ask each other: "Do you think Godot's coming any time
soon?" "Dunno. You know, though, I heard somebody
had a cat named Godot*. You don't suppose we've been
looking for the wrong kind of creature all these years,
do you?"...)\brad mccormick
*Factually correct statement, BMcC.
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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