Today in History: Reagan's Evil Empire 1983

I have my doubts though. The US still has a long way ahead of it self before we can say so.

For those that did not pick up on the irony inherent in Reagan's characterization of the Soviet Union: The Soviet Union is indeed no more, but the US still retains some of Reagan's legacy and thus retains the moniker evil empire in many places around the world. In the case of his cold war comment, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, this has taken the moral high ground since its inception, and it is only with the election of President Obama that this has changed, thus he was awarded the Nobel Prize by the international community while at the same time losing popular support at home.

"The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the US president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W Bush."

The problem with the above statement is that many actually agree with it in the face of all the evidence to the contrary. Neither has Bush, nor any other American president, engaged in genocide as did Hitler when he sent 6 million Jews to their deaths.

"Our fear that communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has".Michael Parenti in 'The Anti-Communist Impulse',cited in Willium Blum's 'Killing Hope' US Military and CIA Interventions since World War ll.

Regan's anti-communism postures are well known.When he described Soviet Union as Evil Empire,the sermon delivering devil falshed in my mind.Nazi holocausts comes no where close to American holocausts.

"For the student of history there are few polities that can match the United States in the high idealism and moral values which animated its founders.Yet,to think that even a person as eminent as Franklin indulged in disinformation of the baser variety is a humbling thought.Why do individuals,so upright in their conduct and behaviour ,honestly beleive that when it comes to acting on behalf of the state there is no limit to lying and cheating......".K.P.Fabian in 'The Commonsense On the War On Iraq.Could there be abetter commentary on those who are least reluctant to push aside their committment to high moral values,like Bejamin franklin,who can stoop to so low level.Why lying and cheating is resorted to,practised on a regular basis like a ritual to manifest loyalty to the state?That is a question we must ask to ourselves.

I can qoute extensively to drive my point home that US is an empire,an evil empire.In Russian empire people were denied the fundamental freedom of expression and as a result of that US could easily influence people by false propaganda.