[extropy-chat] can't second guess history

[Ned Late]

It doesn't appear McCarthy harmed the cause of anti-communism much if at all. Besides, again, there is no point in second-guessing history except as a what-if game.
To get back to my original point, what was negative about '50s was the black poverty rate being at 50%. Allen Dulles mentioned to Truman or Eisenhower that something had to be done concerning black poverty so that the Soviets, and Communists in general, couldn't use it against us both domestically and internationally.

>Stephen Van_Sickle <sjvans at ameritech.net> wrote:
>McCarthy could not have hurt the cause of
>anti-communism more if he tried. I have sometimes
>wondered if *he* was the mole in the government, but
>people have been looking through the old Soviet
>archives long enough now that it would have turned up
>if he was.


		
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