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Jon Schwarz at MichaelMoore.com ..

Wilentz is pissed off because he understands Untold History is a damning indictment of an entire worldview – that of his political patrons and all comfortable establishment historians like him .. if Wilentz’s understanding of history is correct, U.S. cold war policies should have ended with the cold war itself [] Looked at through that lens, Stone and Kuznick’s perspective explains a lot more about the world than that of Wilentz. The Warsaw Pact is gone, but NATO remains, and in fact has expanded eastward .. establishment historians like Wilentz play the same role today as they did during the cold war: not just refusing to ask critical questions about U.S. history and its effect on the present day, but shouting down those who attempt to do so. That’s what Wilentz is doing with his review of Untold History. And it’s what he did in October, 2001 when he explained why the U.S. had just been attacked: “To the terrorists, America’s crime – its real crime – is to be America.” It’s no surprise Wilentz was desperate for Americans to adopt this childish view

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