Obama just killed the Cold War myth, and not a moment too soon. In the speech he gave in New Economic School in Moscow yesterday he said, among other things
...within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Now, make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.
Coming from someone else, of a different nation, most of the world would perceive this as a more-or-less uncontroversial statement of fact. Coming from the President of the United States, however, it's a radical, but deeply needed departure from the expected.
