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Originally Posted by August
No he's a former KGB General describing not opinion, not hearsay but his first hand knowledge. So how's it feel to find out you've been manipulated like that?
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He is also a traitor to his own people, and probably living very well through being ingratiating to his new keepers. If it was an American traitor now living in Russia / Iran / whatever making the same claims about America, will you be as sympathetic?
I have no doubt that the Soviet Union played up any American atrocities or mistakes for all they are worth. The United States does the same. It might even be that at least some of the atrocities did not occur. But to imply the Americans were really goody-goodies in Vietnam makes him sound just like a paid rat. To try and imply that any negative commentary is damaging to the nation makes me feel he never really gotten out of the old Soviet stereotypical mold.
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I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America's own respect for its president.
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The guy doesn't even separate correlation and cause. Could it be, uh, that Presidents respected by Americans were really better Presidents enforcing better policies, thus winning respect domestically and globally? How did he become a General of anything with this level of intellect?