NBC's Brokaw: U.S. Anti-Communism Efforts During Cold War A 'National Obsession' | NewsBusters

NBC's Brokaw: U.S. Anti-Communism Efforts During Cold War A 'National Obsession' | NewsBusters: "The anchor never explained that in each of those instances, the United States was responding to an earlier move by the Soviet Union or its allies. During the Korean War, the Soviet-backed North Korean "People's Army" invaded South Korea. Several years later, the U.S. space program was sent into overdrive after the launch of Sputnik in 1957. The following decade, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962; and South Vietnam was already fighting the communist North Vietnamese forces as the U.S. gradually become more and more involved."



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