[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 03:10:24 PDT 2011


On 8/18/2011 2:55 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> If Gore had been acknowledged as the winner in 2000, there would have
> been no Iraq war. The Middle East would be a very different place
> today and the US would have a lot more influence. FBOW.

Okay, but even accepting the arguable premise about Gore, the Iraq invasion didn't change the world nearly as much as did the collapse of Communism from the Elbe to the Aleutians. Not even close, I'd say.

SA



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