Talk:Rollback

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[edit] origin of the term?

When was it first used? -- TheMightyQuill 14:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My edit, and thoughts

I felt a need to add "by direct force of arms" to the end of the second sentence of "Rollback during Cold War". Feeling a need from there to elaborate on some context forming sentiments of the times I added some words on the reaction to the Iron Curtain speech. These sentiments might seem irreconcilable to the statement "many Americans felt that they were in a life or death struggle against world communism". These thoughts aren't entirely irreconciable as it's fair to say there was a spectrum of attitudes, even in the United States, towards communism. Also these thoughts are not exactly placed in chronological order. I don't think this goes nearly far enough to describe the evolution of public perception by Americans, especially with regards McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Although if some words on such are put in I think a real effort should be made to create a link to how public support or opposition affected rollback policy.

Only the United Fruit Company would have people believe the manufactured coup in Guatemala was an example of Rollback. Well the UFC and pro-communist sholars who would like to portray that incident as being typical and definitive of America defending capitalist interests. Private interests hijacking U.S. government agencies is not american strategy! There must be a better example.

I didn't put in "in some ways was already collapsing as the retreat got under way". Factually it may be true. I'm fairly certain the economic collapse that forced the Soviet Union's collapse was a hardship the Soviets endured for some time before-hand. I did see a need to add the word "and" to conjunct the thought to the rest of the sentence. 68.48.160.243 00:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Various meanings

Is it suitable to include the section on civil rights in an article about a specific anti-communist idea? while attempts to undermine civil rights or other social policies may be termed 'rollback' they are sufficiently different to merit a separate article. although i expect any such article would become a bit of a battlefield. Letstalk 14:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)