On Sep 3, 12:49*am, Stuf4 wrote:
"The Space Race was a proxy war against the Soviets." -Steven Colbert

That's the most succinct analysis of the space race as I've ever seen broadcast. *Colbert & Stewart are masters of cutting straight to the heart of the matter. *Here's the full quote from last Friday's show (where Neil Armstrong is more roasted than eulogized):

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But for God's sake, you brought a plaque up there which reads:

"WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND"

Come on! *The Space Race was a proxy war against the Soviets. *That plaque should have read:

"SUCK IT, IVAN! *SINCERELY, JFK'S GHOST"
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( Colbert's Armstrong piece starts immediately after the commercial break:
*http://www.colbertnation.com/full-ep...1-2012-james-c....
*http://colbertnewshub.tumblr.com/)

Understanding how the third-party proxy set up to fight this "war" was NASA, dressed to appear as a non-military non-aggressive non-threatening entity, then one gains the greater understanding that Neil Armstrong's "small step" was the culmination of *Eisenhower's* initiative. *And it was Ike's effort that was carried on by JFK, LBJ and finally Eisenhower's former VP.

The severe lack of recognition for Eisenhower's brilliance in strategizing for the Space Race is a topic I have thoroughly expounded upon in this forum long ago.

Aside from that one oversight, Colbert's words were spot on!

...and perhaps that is the ultimate tribute to Armstrong's legacy. *FINALLY bringing to the public at large a solid understanding of what the Space Race was.

Facts that are hard to swallow are made more palatable by comedians by coating them with laughter. *This is often used as a stepping stone toward general acceptance. *I look forward to that next stage of people understanding what the Space Race really was, when an historian can lay it out to the public in words as clear as Colbert used last week, minus the comedic shell.

When that day comes, it will usher in a new era of understanding - one where we can live in confidence that we did learn the lessons of the Cold War accurately.

~ CT

The mutually perpetrated cold-war era was a series of proxy wars that
brought us to 9/11 and beyond. The mostly redneck ZNRs and fellow FUD-
masters think proxy wars are sheer fun and highly profitable, as well
as insuring that as much public loot keeps going into their military
industrial complex and otherwise insures as much public funded job
security w/benefits as possible.

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