January 22, 2014 Red Scare, Part II

The Red Scare of the years 1918-1920 was the quintessential "big scare" of the beginning of the 20th century.  In the article the class read written by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer states that, "how the Department of Justice discovered upwards of 60,000 of these organized agitators of the Trotsky doctrine in the United States, is the confidential information upon which the Government is now sweeping the nation clean of such alien filth," (Gordon 21).  This statement embodied the times of the first red scare.  Meaning the government really had no justification for the actions it committed.
Even today our country seems, daily, to face bombs and gunmen and while this is tragic we do not as a whole, blame certain different countries and although our relation with Russia are at best strained we do not isolate the many Russians living in the United States.  When 9/11 happened granted the United States immediately went to war with Afghanistan.  A war was started and quickly spread, it seemed, to the many countries making up the Middle East.
Why than in 1919 did not the United States send more troops to Russia than they had already sent to stop the spread of Bolshevism?  Though the war would end shortly at this time the country was still at war with Europe.
The answer is obvious the country was tired and financially drained from fighting in a foreign war.  Maybe they didn't relish fighting a Russian winter.  In any event during the second red scare 2-3 presidents were willing to send and keep troops in Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism, the off-shoot of Bolshevism.
We've already established, in class, that this red scare never would have happened had not the country at this time had a President weakened and crippled by a stroke.  Would a red scare of this magnitude happen again?  I doubt it.  If the President were to get sick nowadays we, the public, would know.  We might no know the extent of the illness but in this day and age I've watched the President so much in the media that I've seen every hair on his head turn gray.
Historical narrative, in regards to this red scare event was compounded by the use of the written word.  The major Supreme Court cases that went on during this time greatly help the historian and illustrate the feelings of the political side of America.