release Milosevic!

[Peter K.]

>> It's been 11 years since the US buried the Soviet Union and
>> declared victory in the Cold War. Don't you think "they" would
>> have gotten around to creating a police state by now?
>
>I was speaking _only_ of the response of the federal government to the
>attempt by state governments to suppress the civil rights movement. I
>don't understand what your question is about. You are familiar, are you
>not, with u.s. history between the end of Reconstruction and the partial
>success of the Civil Rights Movement during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and
>Johnson administration?
>
>It would not have created a "police state" (how in the hell did that
>concept get into this thread?) for Eisenhower "reluctantly" to decide
>that he had no power to send troops to Little Rock? That would certainly
>have been "more sinister" than Truman merely dragging his feet on
>integrating the army.
>
>Carrol

A thought experiment: say the pacifists and isolationists succeed in
keeping the US out of World War II. Hitler takes England, drops the A-bomb
on Stalin, whatever, the Soviet Union is no longer around to "force" the
US to behave better. Germany and the US and Japan have a peaceful
coexistence. The Civil Rights movement gets going anyways, maybe
a little bit later, Eisenhower doesn't send it troops, etc., etc. What next?
I'd say the Civil Rights movement keeps on coming and if you are
right and without the Soviet Union white America would resist, it would
have to resort to police state tactics as they did in South Africa -
the Civil Right movement would force them to. But, as I point out
here we are 11 years into the post-Cold War era and considering
your line, you'd think white America would start reasserting itself
without the Soviet Union around.

Peter