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2016-04-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 IMO, first we must deal with the quislings within.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-29 07:11|| 2016-04-29 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Should have been done when the Wall came down. Now we reap the consequences for turning the other cheek.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2016-04-29 07:30|| 2016-04-29 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Both P2K and G are correct.

George Bush Sr. was, to paraphrase Patton, in the right place, at the right time, with the right instruments to defund the left and destroy them in the U.S. when the wall came down. They would have howled like scalded cats regarding the loss of their public funding, but the mood of the country was such that they would have eventually been shouted down and been forced to find work elsewhere.

Twenty five years on, this failure of Bush to de-communize, in the manner that Truman de-Nazified, can be seen as one of, if not the most, horrible failures to act decisively in domestic policy in U.S. history. It may turn out to have been an existential failure.

Posted by no mo uro 2016-04-29 08:11|| 2016-04-29 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush had no control whatsoever on the internal policy of the German government. No more than Roosevelt had over the Nazi government in the 1930s.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-04-29 10:08|| 2016-04-29 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 WRT Bush.....I wasn't referring to Germany. I was referring to the U.S.

Posted by no mo uro 2016-04-29 10:26|| 2016-04-29 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Bush Sr missed many opportunities, that is why he was not re-elected. I don't vilify him but I'll never understand anyone that puts him up on a pedestal. He didn't understand or believe in Reagan's policies and allowed them to wither when he could have doubled down and made the world a much better place.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-04-29 10:37|| 2016-04-29 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 The oddest thing about this is the fact that the Lowell Sun is a well known Massachusetts news paper.

If people up here are starting to catch on there might be a smidgen of hope after all.

Posted by AlanC 2016-04-29 13:09|| 2016-04-29 13:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Belgrade, when the walls came down.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-29 14:09|| 2016-04-29 14:09|| Front Page Top

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