Pack of Lies

John Patrick Diggins has written an execreble revisionist history of the end of the Cold War in an article for the New York Times. Steven Den Beste ably takes the story apart - and story is the right word here.

If we all just try to get along, and hold out our hands to everyone else as friends, then war will be a thing of the past. That's the lesson of the history of the Reagan presidency that Diggins wants us to learn.

There's just one minor problem with that: it's a pack of lies.

Read the whole thing, of course. It's long, but very worth your time.

Posted by Jeff at June 14, 2004 10:58 AM | Link Cosmos