[andyfox]

"Did I make any liberals puke yet?"

One, for sure.

Just one comment on your citation of Mr. Greenspan's book. Indeed, the economic situation in the Communist world was far worse than most anyone had thought. Whose voice was it that had consistently told us ad inifinitum that it was in fact far better than our leaders had either known or were letting on and that we had in fact vastly underrated their economic capabilities?