True Saints: Gorby

Someday. somewhere, someone will write the history of the Cold War and tell us how it ended. My guess is that by that time Gorbachev will be seen as a unique hero. A dictator who chose peace over empire.

I know this is a minority opinion and we atheists lack the neat canonization processes available to some other Churches, but I enjoy watching the traces of our consensus process us they emerge.

So, here is a comment by Gorb on why America;s policies have failed since the Fall of the Wall.
The essence is that Gorby feels the US as well as the USSR lost the Cold War. In nhis view, the post Fall world is not amenable to hegemony.

Worth the read.

At the same time, the Huff Post ran a polemic about the conservative Christians who support Israel out of a belief in the end times. Is there a common idea here? W/o Gorbochev's commitment to world peace, WWIII might well have happened. These fundie Christians have weird beliefs but Israel uses those beliefs to keep itself in existence. As a Jew I find this very uncomfortable but is OUR end justified by THEIR end?