On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:26 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is Lind on Bacevich: However, they deserve each other:
>
> "NOWHERE IS this more true than in Bacevich’s treatment of the Cold War,
> which
> echoes the polemical literature of the anti-interventionist Left between
> the
> 1960s and the 1980s. Those works sought to make U.S. policy toward Korea,
> Indochina, Cuba and Latin America appear ludicrous and irrational, by
> insisting
> that these conflicts were not what they in fact were—proxy wars in
> great-power
> struggles—but unprovoked attacks by a bullying superpower on small
> countries
> whose regimes were really independent of Moscow and Beijing. Much of that
> writing has been discredited since the end of the Cold War, by the partial
> publication of Soviet archives, which shed light on the workings of other
> regimes, and the controlled releases of material by China, North Korea and
> Vietnam. All tell a far more complicated story than the simple tale of
> unprovoked American aggression."