The Collapse of Communism

Greenspan Book Criticizes Bush And Republicans
'They Deserved to Lose';
By GREG IP and EMILY STEEL September 15, 2007

Mr. Greenspan returns repeatedly to the far-reaching importance of communism's collapse. He says it discredited central planning throughout the world and inspired China and later India to throw off socialist policies. He recalls meeting a former manager of a produce distribution center in China who says he once had to labor to allocate produce according to government edict; now the allocations are made by auction. "Now I don't have to get up at four a.m.," he quotes the manager as saying. "I can sleep in and let the market do my job for me." Mr. Greenspan recalls his amazement when an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin asks him to discuss Ayn Rand, the libertarian philosopher with whom Mr. Greenspan had been friends.

Remember when we all thought the communist atheists were going to take over the world? We were paranoid and needed to stand up and fight for God and country. Then communism collapsed on its own incompetence.

The same will happen to our phobia for Islam. Islam will also collapse. It will not take over the world. It will not dominate a billion Chinese, a billion Hindus, millions of Christians, millions of moderate Muslims, and a few atheists.

The war lovers and those who want to "serve their country" need a bogeyman du jour. Islam happens to be the current item to create fear, therefore justifying all the control the State has over our actions. And as usual, the Christians are in fear their religion will be eliminated.

Islam has shown the horrors of radical beliefs. It is its own worst enemy.

Charles Tolleson