An american history lesson with gore vidal
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In defense of Truman, he opposed the 1950 Internal Security Act that would've allowed governemnt employees to be investigated and fired for subversive activities. It was passed by congress by a wide margin, overriding his veto power. Truman also, I think, supported universal health care.
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I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE U.S.A TELL PUTIN HE NEEDS TO BE LIBERATED LOL KABOOM! BYE BYE U.S.A LOL..
WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN PROBLEMS YOU WARE MONGERS!!!!!
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@mihaimoldo Good question. Don't expect it to ever be answered though. I'd like to know why it's our job to fight for freedom in shit holes like Iraq and Libya. We wouldn't want people invading us because they don't like our government.
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Put it this way kids...if the US is fighting for freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan, now Lybia...to "free the people from their tyrannical rulers" why is China,wich is a communist state with the population that virtually have no rights,to do it's daily business with no one to stop it's evil government?Because they accepted the corporatism that is eating like a cancer the states. Anyone who opposes this "new trend" is bombed and removed...plain and simple.Gaddafi was an ok guy in 2009 in their eyes.
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mr. vidal has a great book called the THE LAST EMPIRE which i would recommend highly. scary isn't a strong enough word.
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very true many Southern Leaders such as Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet felt that was a big mistake.
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@johnnyreb1025 It is pretty apparent if you look at the attack at Fort Sumter that Lincoln wanted Southern forces to attack thus giving him an enormous psychological and propaganda advantage that the South could never claim. It also deligitimized the South in world opinion even though England was somewhat sympathetic to the South.
The fact was that Lincoln's win guraranteed war or some conflict; The question was who would fire first?
The South did -big mistake.
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im glad we agree on that. Lincoln wanted war and pushed the south to it. in actuallity though only 20% of Southerners owned a slave and only 6% of those were the rich planters. and many Southern leaders favored abolition. Robert E. Lee wanted imediate emancipation others like Jackson and Jefferson Davis wanted to educate slaves before emancipating them very few thought slavery would and should continue
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Only, you're assuming that because McCarthy and those like him thought they were fighting against the threat of communism that they actually were. It seems to me that they contributed to the problem. Just look at developments with the hydrogen bomb. Thanks to McCarthyism sane people like Oppenheimer lost all their power, and people like Edward teller gained prominence and escalated a very dangerous arms race. McCarthyism did NOT diminish the soviet threat, it increased it.
Tzadeck 2 years ago 19
@Raford146 Apparently, you don't seem to understand that you choose one enemy at the exclusion of all others.
The United States never had a problem with totalitarian regimes so long as they were rightwing and anti-communist. Democracy? They don't need it just whine against the commies and we'll throw you a few bucks.
How can the US oppose totalitarian regime when it supports and believes in many of them? Does not follow.
MultiSmartass1 1 year ago 8