Stalin (and his ilk) were constantly scrubbing history to fit their agenda. It is said, in fact, that in the USSR, the future was known...it was the past that was always changing.

Today's American left are driven by the same impulse, and will use whatever means at their disposal to do the same thing. Fortunately, American liberty prevents them from getting away with as much as Stalin could...though if they had the power afforded them by the totalitarian system to which their core ideology is always slouching, they surely would.

Using the three pillars of information dissemination—academia, entertainment, and the press, over which they enjoy near-hegemonic control—they do their level best, within the aforementioned constraints put upon them by American liberty. The latest example, according to this article by Paul Kengor, is the film Charlie Wilson's War.

After reading the article, some may say, "so they scrub history of Reagan and his team's role in supporting the mujahedeen...what's the big deal? They wanted to make a movie with their guys as the heros."

But that's how the left gets ya, folks. A little bit here, a little bit there, and before you know it, an entire generation's perception of reality has been slightly altered...altered, it just so happens, in ways that suit the left's overall agenda.