U.S. bid to dominate invites disaster - Gorbachev

[maddezmom]

By Robert Evans
12 minutes ago



GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. efforts to dominate the world could end in disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader who launched an era of cooperation with the United States that ended the Cold War, said on Monday.

A critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Gorbachev called for the rapid withdrawal of what he called occupation forces, warning: "The longer they stay, the worse the situation will get.

"You cannot get anywhere ... by trying to dominate," he told a meeting marking the 20th anniversary of his 1985 Geneva summit with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a turning point in then frigid East-West relations.

"That doesn't work with small countries nowadays, and even less with big ones like Russia, Iran and -- heaven forbid -- China. That way lies disaster," said Gorbachev, who lost his post as president when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.

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[getmeouttahere]

1. Another voice of reason....

which will be ignored because it is from outside Jesusland!

[Mythsaje]

2. Good for Gorby.

He's telling it like it is. And he should know.

Not that anyone will listen.

[me b zola]

3. From a man who knows

A critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Gorbachev called for the rapid withdrawal of what he called occupation forces, warning: "The longer they stay, the worse the situation will get."


This will be yet another unheeded warning...and down that path we continue...

[Briar]

4. "Could end in disaster"?

It's bound to end in disaster. Either the US creates chaos in the attempt, or it succeeds and the rest of us have to live under US domination.

[IndianaGreen]

5. This would be a welcomed disaster

For those of us that believe in the old American Republic, anything that would bring the downfall of the Empire and its Divine Emperor, would be welcomed news.

[MadisonProgressive]

6. We're trying to dominate the world? FUCKING COMMIE!

Everyone knows we are just going after the terra-rists that hate our freedoms. And we are liberating repressed peoples, too... aren't we????????????????