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<blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4708760" data-attributes="member: 30936">It's not really a political debate. The question isn't about whether any side was right or wrong, but how the leaders and general populace thought. The fact that you, if I understand correctly, weren't living in the US in the 1980s means you might not have the best handle on the time, culturally. Terror wasn't the word, profound unease is perhaps more accurate. Watchmen was written after both KAL 007, Abel Archer 83, the leak of Reagan's &quot;We begin bombing in five minutes&quot; joke, the whole SDI thing, Afghanistan, combined with Andropov and Chernenko being just as hard line as Reagan and Thatcher didn't help.Watchmen was written against this backdrop, the sense of unease and regular news about Afganistan, and the apparent runaway crime and poverty and decay in US cities, and social unrest. Watchmen is a product of it's time that reflects parts of that time. To understand and analysie it, you need to understand it's time and context. You also need to recognise that the book is an alternate history, one where diplomatic relations between the US and USSR had not changed since the 1960s, and where the balance of power had overwhelmingly been in the US's favor since that same time as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Krensky, post: 4708760, member: 30936"] It's not really a political debate. The question isn't about whether any side was right or wrong, but how the leaders and general populace thought. The fact that you, if I understand correctly, weren't living in the US in the 1980s means you might not have the best handle on the time, culturally. Terror wasn't the word, profound unease is perhaps more accurate. Watchmen was written after both KAL 007, Abel Archer 83, the leak of Reagan's "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke, the whole SDI thing, Afghanistan, combined with Andropov and Chernenko being just as hard line as Reagan and Thatcher didn't help. Watchmen was written against this backdrop, the sense of unease and regular news about Afganistan, and the apparent runaway crime and poverty and decay in US cities, and social unrest. Watchmen is a product of it's time that reflects parts of that time. To understand and analysie it, you need to understand it's time and context. You also need to recognise that the book is an alternate history, one where diplomatic relations between the US and USSR had not changed since the 1960s, and where the balance of power had overwhelmingly been in the US's favor since that same time as well. [/QUOTE]

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