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It's now been a generation since the Cold War ended. By this logic and pattern, we should erect statues to our nation's traitors during that time. To help bring
by drewcoo 6y ago
It's now been a generation since the Cold War ended. By this logic and pattern, we should erect statues to our nation's traitors during that time. To help bring the world together. Clearly that wouldn't be about slavery, but about "healing," right?
Our Aldritch Ames statue and the statue of the unknown KGB mole can join world icons like the British Cambridge Five statue, Philby evasive even in statue form.
No. Somehow that logic only "works" with the US Civil War, after which the United Daughters of the Confederacy waged a multi-generation propaganda campaign to convince us all that the war was not about slavery and that the south would rise again.
- mcguire 6y agoOther countries have faced similar contradictory situations. The post-apartheid South Africans have completely failed to exterminate the white minority, there are still Hutus in Rwanda, and the German military was needed for a possible Soviet invasion. (Wait, that last isn't a good example.) Reconciliation was necessary if you didn't want the United States to go the way of, say, Mexico. The "Lost Cause" business just went too far, freezing the process for a hundred years.