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

[SA]

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