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Vendaval -> RE: McCain and Spain (9/19/2008 12:03:58 PM)
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Hey, anyone else remember the political satire map showing Reagan's view of the world? In case you don't remember from oh-so-long-ago, take a look here - [:D]
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/38-the-world-according-to-ronald-reagan/
"The map shows an ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ bipolarity, with exaggerated sizes for (non-American) ‘good guys’ such as:
- Thatcherland (the UK - “a subsidiary of Disneyland”, in this map also including Ireland)
- Acidrainia (a smallish rendering of Canada - “a wholly-owned US subsidiary”)
- Grenada (the Carribean island Reagan had invaded to overthrow a socialist regime - “our airport”)
- El Salvador (the Central American country heavily supported militarily against leftist rebels, adjacent to “our canal” which in actual fact is completely within Panamanian territory)
- Falklands (the British archipelago off South America which the UK reconquered after an Argentinian invasion in 1983)
- Our China (i.e. Taiwan, but oversized)
- Japan Corporation (in the shape of an automobile, at a moment when the Japanese car industry was overtaking the homegrown manufacturers in importance)
- Our Oil (Saudi Arabia and, one would suspect at that time also Saddam Hussein’s Iraq)
- Israel (made out to occupy a large area of the Middle East, including Beirut - which it did in the early Eighties)
The ‘bad guys’ are:
- USSR (”godless communists, liars and spies”)
- Poland occupies a separate place in the Soviet bloc, as its resistance against the communist system was a precursor to the wave of liberation that swept across Eastern Europe in 1989.
- Their China (Communist China, by no means friendly with Soviet Russia - but equally ‘evil and godless’)
- Soviet Colony (Cuba)
- Muslim fanatics (i.e. Iran)
- Socialists and pacifists (probably referring to the huge popular protests in Europe against the deployment of Pershing II cruise missiles by NATO) "
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