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user-inactivated · 3590 days ago · link · · parent · post: Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird", is publishing a second book: Go Set a Watchman
True. But most of our actual intervention in the '50s was -- well, not as completely unnecessary as this decade's, but very close. I'm in the historical camp that thinks we had the threat of communism way overblown, whether men like Dulles were lying to themselves or just propagating their own power intentionally. There was some threat, sure, but in a lot of ways the threat was manufactured.