[lbo-talk] Anatol Lieven: Why are we trying to reheat the Cold War?

[Charles Brown]

Chris Doss :
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2006
Why are we trying to reheat the Cold War?
By Anatol Lieven

It's true, of course, that the Soviet Union once posed
a severe threat to the United States and its allies -

^^^^^^
CB: Of course _that_ is one of the biggest anti-Soviet lies of the socalled
Cold War and the Hot Wars by capitalism on the Soviet Union before that. It
was the U.S. and its allies that posed a severe threat to the Soviet Union;
and the Soviet Union built up its truly defensive capabilities in response
to that vicious aggression.

It was the U.S. and the other imperialist countries that prosecuted _all_
the aggressive wars of the "Cold" War against socialist countries