My sense of history seems a bit confused right now. Perhaps others can help me untangle my thinking. As best I can recall, Americans were engaged in a protracted “Cold War” against a Soviet regime that had been labeled the “Evil Empire” because it: (1) maintained an all-intrusive domestic police-state; (2) held people in prisons without trials; (3) had expansionist ambitions over other countries; (4) invaded and occupied Afghanistan; and (5) tortured people in isolated “gulags.” Now I am told that the United States is doing these same things; that the CIA is even making use of former Soviet “gulags” … Continue reading The Cold War Revisited