The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The End Of The Cold War

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The celebrations are now over. Leaders from 28 nations -- President Obama sent Hillary Clinton -- commemorated the fall of the Berlin wall, which initiated the collapse of the Soviet Union. The fall of the wall was the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the dawn of a new freedom for all humanity - or was it?

If we understand the fall of the wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union as the product of error rather than as an expression of the human desire for freedom, then the years following the end of the USSR take on a radically different significance.

After the events at Ford Hood, it is more apparent than ever that the mainstream media is completely disconnected from the real world. They ascribe the psychotic behavior of a murderer to the vague taunts of people who weren't even his victims.

They fail to note that Hasan was in a position of power. He was a doctor and an officer. In no way was he a victim, as the press and our President would maintain. This represents a lack of reality testing ability.

Reason, logic and faith are all useless against the willfully ignorant.

 Nidal Hasan 2007 Presentation to Military - "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military"

• Adobe Acrobat PDF file of Nidal Hasan 2007 presentation
  http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/nidal_hasan/Hasan_2007.pdf
• addresses "Offensive Jihad,"  Says "Fighting to establish an Islamic State... is condoned"
  -- Nidal Hasan Slide 49: "Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God even by force is condoned by the Islam"
• Nidal Hasan Comments Slide 48 ends with "We Love Death More Than You Love Life"
• Nidal Hasan Offensive Jihad Slide 44 quoting verse that Muslims should fight non-Muslims (with bold by Nidal Hasan) "until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection."

"If we can't convince a million and a half people we're worth less than a dollar a week, the market will have spoken," Newsweek's editor Jon Meacham said in May 2009, according to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post.  And Meacham has been working hard to make his dream come true, by featuring such laughable headlines as The Thinking Man's Thinking Man: Al Gore's New Plan for the Planet, Yes He Can (But He Sure Hasn't Yet): A Liberal's Survival Guide, and my personal favorite, Why Joe Is No Joke: From Afghanistan to Health Care, A Vice President to Be Reckoned With, a hilarious attempt to validate Joe Biden.  At this point, the number of Americans who believe Newsweek is worth more than a dollar a week is shrinking faster than Harry Reid's approval ratings.