THE WHOLE THING IS HILARIOUS...:

America's Age of Denial: If you told me on October 22, 1962 that America's most formidable enemy in 2008 would be Iran, I would have been flabbergasted." (Tom Engelhardt, July 31 , 2008, Mother Jones)

Thanks largely, however, to one man, Gorbachev, who consciously chose a path of non-violence, after four decades of nuclear standoff in a fully garrisoned MAD (mutually assured destruction) world—and to the amazement, even disbelief, of official Washington—the USSR simply disappeared, and almost totally peaceably at that.

...but that bit is priceless. There was, of course, one official in Washington who wasn't at all surprised that Reaganism had finished off the USSR.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 31, 2008 5:35 PM