Obama has rewritten the Cold War

Liz Cheney has a WSJ article slamming Obama for his recount of the Cold War.

‘Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: “The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.”‘

Mr. Obama apparently has either no idea of what was going on during the Cold War – probably because of all the drugs he was using or selling – or, he is intentionally sucking up the the Russian regime.  Either way, it’s sick.

Mr Obama’s version is not even close to the truth.  We were not fighting over astrophysics and athletics.  Nor were we really fighting about ideology.  We were at odds because one regime was a brutal totalitarian regime filled with secret police, KGB killings, imprisonment of political enemies and dissidents and the denial of basic human and civil rights.  The Soviet Union then tried to export this type of terrorist government to other nations as a means of controlling them.  The ultimate goal of the USSR was to dominate the world and create a de facto World Empire. 

Mr. Obama seems to leave out these facts when he was speaking to these young Russian graduates.  In fact he does them and us all a disservice by telling it any other way.  The Soviet Union was evil – as all totalitarian regimes are.  It collapsed because the West was too much for them, economically, socially, and militarily.  The nation that took the lead in defeating the Soviet Union was none other than the United States. 

I suppose this drivel that Obama speaks is whats showing up in history books and that our children will no doubt be droning this in the near future.  But it is a bold faced lie to say that the Soviet Union or the Cold War ended peacefully.  Nothing about the experience of the citizens of the Soviet Union was peaceful I would imagine.  The Cold War was more about their struggle within the Soviet Union than ours outside of it.  The USSR was a reminder about just how far tyranny can take you, but it also shows that it can only take you so far.  The will to live free always prevails. Even if it takes 80 years or so.

So I would appreciate it if Mr. Obama would tell the truth about the Cold War.  Unless he is trying to model OUR nation after the Soviet Union.  Then I wouldn’t expect him to tell the truth about anything.