Cold
War 2.0 Not a Likely Win for the U.S. (print-friendly Common
Dreams link), by Robert Freedman, Common Dreams,
November 22, 2014 (original link here).
(Go here and click play for some background music. Perhaps you will like it. There is nothing there to watch, so you can just listen while you come back and read on.)
There is nothing in Robert Freedman's concluding paragraphs (below) that you might not already know if you have been following along with me for a while, like about the U.S. dollar having been the world's reserve currency for a long time and something about what that means. What is new is the way Mr. Freedman has put together in one place pieces, all of which you probably also know, of what has happened to the world--how things have progressed and changed--since World War II. He has made the picture much more clear in what comes before these concluding paragraphs:
Cold War 2.0 Not a Likely Win for the U.S. (print-friendly Common Dreams link), by Robert Freedman, Common Dreams, November 22, 2014 (original link here).
Larry
--
Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.--Wendell Berry
(Go here and click play for some background music. Perhaps you will like it. There is nothing there to watch, so you can just listen while you come back and read on.)
There is nothing in Robert Freedman's concluding paragraphs (below) that you might not already know if you have been following along with me for a while, like about the U.S. dollar having been the world's reserve currency for a long time and something about what that means. What is new is the way Mr. Freedman has put together in one place pieces, all of which you probably also know, of what has happened to the world--how things have progressed and changed--since World War II. He has made the picture much more clear in what comes before these concluding paragraphs:
".....Triumphalism is a reliable polemical staple in the U.S., though it is increasingly rendered as fantasy. Note, for example, that it is the same neocons who lied the U.S. into the war in Iraq who now lead the cheering section for a new Cold War. The chest thumping over the Berlin Wall and the bravado championing a new Cold War are the counsel of arrogance, ignorance, and failure. True, such a war would be a god-send to the weapons makers and the bankers who fund the neocons and who control so much of U.S. policy. But it will devastate the rest of the society.One can read a bit about Mr. Freeman along the left side at http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Freeman/e/B00FRL6SH6/ after clicking the x to get a "Get new release updates" pop-up out of the way. It is an interesting story, partly about how and what to teach children, or, rather, a part of what to teach children along with everything else you may think is important for them to know, like what love requires of us, perhaps, for one example.
"The U.S. has enormous work to do putting its own house in order. Caution commends that it back off from any further escalation of Cold War 2.0 and begin that rebuilding work at home."
Cold War 2.0 Not a Likely Win for the U.S. (print-friendly Common Dreams link), by Robert Freedman, Common Dreams, November 22, 2014 (original link here).
Larry
--
Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.--Wendell Berry
