America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:26:07 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.truthdig.com/articles/america-is-exceptional-in-all-the-wrong-ways/>

"I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now
remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few
seem to recall the madness of the 1980s. The U.S. had a celebrity actor
for president, who railed about America’s ostensibly existential
adversary—the Soviet “evil empire.” Back then, Ronald Reagan nearly
started a nuclear war during the all-too-real Able Archer war game. He
also secretly sold missiles to Iran, and then laundered the windfall to
the Contras’ Central American hit squads, resulting in some 100,000 dead."

Via grace diemand and then Muse, who wrote: "This is so spot on. These
are all the reasons why I left the US at the end of the 1980s."

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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