A Media Circus Worthy of Contempt

"No doubt, it would be in terrible taste to recall that the now lionized Ronald Reagan had almost nothing to do with undermining the Soviet Union and ending the Cold War. Rather, it was Jimmy Carter who authorized his National Security Advisor Zbignew Brezjinski to conduct, through the CIA, the biggest covert operation in Afghanistan to create a Vietnam War for the Soviets. It was also Jimmy Carter who in 1979 authorized the placement of Pershing II nuclear missiles aimed at the Kremlin to get the Soviets to the nuclear disarmament bargaining table.
Facts, as Reagan used to say, are annoying little devils. Reagan preferred myth. And today public myth says Jimmy Carter did not accomplish anything; he was a presidential failure, and his administration was a national disgrace. With the media orgy over Ronald Reagan now in full swing, who can say anything good about Jimmy Carter? Who can ever say anything good about Jimmy Carter? After all, that would require a reliance upon fact, not myth. . . .
What Reagan can be given credit for is assisting in the covert slaughter of South American peasants accused of being “rebels” and “communists” so that their land, the oil under it, and the lumber on top of it, so that their hopes for the future, could all be stolen from them. Never mind the Reagan cruelty of calling homeless Americans “urban campers” and instead of sending nutritious foods he sent surplus catsup to poor school children, referring to catsup as a “vegetable.” Never mind, because amnesiac America is being put deeper to sleep by a Republican led media circus that has no time for facts."