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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Hound was subjected to McCarthyism!!!!
	Date:	3/31/2011 9:48:58 PM

What are you talking about? You just go on and on.
I didn't learn anything about McCarthyism when I was in school. Everything I know about McCarthy comes from things I've read since. It doesn't matter what I think about the Rosenburgs, since they were executed and we all know that innocent people are never executed for crimes they didn't commit, right? So they must have been guilty.

IN the 1960's, when I was in grade school, there was still much paranoia about the Communists and the Soviets. We were told by our government that our involvement in VN was to stop communism in it's tracks -- yes, we were spoon fed the domino effect.
I'm old enough to remember "duck and cover" so when the big, bad Soviet Union bombed us, we could survive. I remember serious discussion about bomb shelters and as a young child I remember going home from school one day terrified and told my mother that "the Russians were coming"... which I can only conclude had to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I don't think it is ever a good idea to succumb to paranoia. And there are always those that will be willing to generate and exploit paranoia for political purposes.
As an adult, I realize that I can never be 100% sure of what the real intentions of another country are, but I also realize that my own government does not always wear the "white hat" of good intentions and have lived long enough to find out that what I am told is rarely the whole story.