Mark Russell: The Line of Death Bar & Grill (1986)

Source:PBS political satirist Mark Russell.

"In 1986, Mark Russell played at the headquarters of the CIA. Written at a time when Reagan, Arafat & Gaddafi were at odds, Russell imagines a bar for CIA employees & comes up with a jingle for the establishment." 

From Mark Russell

So to understand Mark Russell's video and my post for that matter, you need to take a mental trip back to the 1986 and hopefully you don't anything that's currently illegal to help you take that trip.

Go back to the mid 1980s and to 1986: the Cold War was starting to wind down, thanks to agreements that President Ronald Reagan got with the Soviet Union, as well as the fact that the Russian Communist State was already starting to collapse because of the failures of their Communist economy and Communist government all together. 

But as the Cold War was coming to an end, other threats, including threats from non-state-actors like in the Middle East and places like Libya were starting emerge. Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran were already in that picture as countries that would do business with private terrorist organizations, at least Iran was. 

What political satirist Mark Russell is talking about here, is a local Washington bar, where Washington national security and intelligence folks would gather and throw a few back and socialize. 

Hey, if I was a national security or intelligence official, I would probably throw a few back myself. But hopefully not to the point that I would take the Stars Wars films seriously and think we could bomb Russia from outer space. Or go up 15 years later and see weapons of mass distraction, I mean destruction, that we're no longer there. 

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