<p>I don’t know. I just think the Cold War could have been avoided had the Soviet Union and the US not been so damn uncompromising – probably one of the biggest factors. I mean, Truman was expecting 85%. What the [bleep] was he thinking? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not necessarily pro-Stalin, he was being really stupid, thinking that the US would ever give him a $2 billion dollar loan.</p>
<p>I also have a problem with the “We must use democracy” excuse with foreign nations. It’s not that I have a problem with democracy (despite it’s flaws, it’s lovable, to an extent), but I really do have a problem with people using that an absolute reason for invading, well, any country. Again, not communist really, but we’ve never really seen communism flourish in large nations – but that’s because we never had the chance to do so. Truman and Bush – both of them – although I dislike Bush much, much, much more than Truman – played the democracy card to convince Americans to “do the right thing.”</p>
<p>Being frank, we’ve barely started Eisenhower and this is my first stab at the Cold War (AMATEUR!!!) but so far, I’ve been less than unimpressed. I honestly don’t believe that it needed to happen and that containing Communism was just…grr…bothersome. I’d get into details about it, but then I’d just start mouthing off. And just a while ago, I said that I wouldn’t EVER talk about politics on CC.</p>
<p>Cough, cough…good to know people at Smith are opinionated. The kids at my school are apathetic, and that’s an understatement. It’s so sad.</p>