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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: TimF who wrote (76436)1/6/2010 8:23:57 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Bob Murphy tries a variation the good old moral equivalence between the USSR and the US argument, while denying he's doing so.

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Bob Murphy writes:

I know I'm going to be accused of "moral equivalence" here, so let me state that I am not saying one is as bad as the other.

OK now on to the question: Why exactly was a world with the Soviet Union so scary? Because they were trying to use their might to intimidate and/or literally take over as many countries as they could, right?

So, from the point of view of people outside of the US, especially the kind of countries that were subject to the imperialism of the Soviet Union...are they thinking the world is really great (on that score) since 1990?

econlog.econlib.org
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Jayson Virissimo takes care of the response before I got to it

"60+ million deaths in the 20th century caused by the USSR is pretty scary. The fear they created is almost insignificant next to the weight of this fact."

econlog.econlib.org

Then my response

"Jayson gets to the core of the issue, but beyond the death, there was also the destruction, the fear, the need for the US and other countries to spend an enormous amount of wealth to prepare defenses against the threat (since the USSR fell the US has been spending something like 3 to 5% of our GDP on defense, as opposed to several times that in the cold war), and just all the people that where abused or had their freedom limited by the USSR."

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