Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Cold War Revisted

Just finished watching Georgie's address to the nation... and feel like I am in a weird sort of time warp... this fight for freedom and liberty... and good and evil... doesn't it all smack of Cold War rhetoric?

Now I am sooo far from being an expert on this - all I know about the Cold War is a few random undergrad history/poly sci classes... and I am, after all, heading to Vietnam in a few weeks... so I could have messy wars on the brain...but still... very very strange... maybe soon we'll be told that in case of a potential biological weapon we should hide under our desks for protection... hmmm...hopefully we're not quite there yet....

2 Comments:

At 2:00 AM, Blogger Erik said...

his fight for freedom and liberty... and good and evil... doesn't it all smack of Cold War rhetoric?

Rhetoric is all it is. We really have to learn what rhetoric means; it's propaganda, brought to you as news. Spin, without the ability to refute it.

It's time for change; but as long as we even wonder about the meaning of a "propagnda speech", change won't come soon.

We should refute these "addresses" all together. They don't make any sense, whatsoever.

 
At 4:57 PM, Blogger JJ said...

Yeah, I guess what I was trying to convey is that sometimes it feels like we are moving in concentric circles... instead of progressing towards a more peaceful world...(as naive as that sounds..)

 

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