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[freethought]

So with Vlad the impaler's comments about how American foreign policy is fueling a cold war arms race, American officials rather than acknowleding this point, have taken to using rhetoric and throwing around scary terms--- an entirely out of character thing to do for the Bush admin...

But as the CNN quick vote 'unscientifically shows' most people seem to agree with Putin's assessment.

Who and when the 'first' cold war started are contentious and rigorously debated issues among historians, but can and will there be any doubt about who is responsible for Part two, should it come in to being? I don't think so.

[Sincinnatislink]

There was no cold war. As such, there can't be a reproduction of it.

[jinju]

[Sincinnatislink]

Nope.

Are you going to sit there with your outrage or are you going to say something?

And I went to a perfectly fine college, sir. The odds are against you having more political thought cred.

I was not instructed that there was no cold war. I heard the hypothesis presented in extracurricular reading, evaluated it, and then found it fit nicely with a number of other beliefs I had, supported by empirical evidence.

So please, if you are so incredulous, do ask a question.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

I was not instructed that the Earth was flat. I heard the hypothesis presented in extracurricular reading, evaluated it, and then found it fit nicely with a number of other beliefs I had, supported by empirical evidence.

[Gopher]

Sincinnatislink: please be specific. Who told you the Cold War never existed? And do tell what you think happened between 1945 and 1990.

(I already know what position you are going to ape here. Just want to be sure.)

[Sincinnatislink]

Who would have benefitted from international nuclear war?

[jinju]

[Gopher]

Just what I thought: another conspiracy nutcase trapped in a world of circumstantial "who-would-have-benefitted?" logical constructs.

Nice meeting you, chief.

[Sincinnatislink]

The right answer is "nobody," jackass.

Fear is useful for maintaining power. Both the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States had far too much to lose to even think about a nuclear war. There's more to it than this, but I'd like to hear individual questions from here.

[Sincinnatislink]

And it's not a conspiracy.
It just happened that way.
And you just finally got me to cite something with Chomsky's name on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

[wannago]

[jinju]

Wannago:)

Give the guy a break. He is obviously a recent university graduate. What do you expect? Sanity? Logic?

[Sincinnatislink]

If you're just going to accuse me of conspiracy theories, go for it.

It shows me that you haven't seriously considered Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model. It isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a side effect of capitalism and liberal democracy.

[Gopher]

Ladies and gentlemen I present for your consideration a new poster: Sincinnatislink.

Sincinnatislink has likely very recently graduated the indoctrination school that some call "education" and has internalized and indeed slaved himself to Chomsky's worldview. He will now chastise us "non-thinkers" for not having done this while at the same time masquerading Chomsky's views as his own "alternative," original thinking...

Impressive. Never seen that before.