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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (86235)8/23/2000 7:30:02 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Any man gullible enough back then to take the Soviet
Union's word on anything should not have been Commander-in-Chief.

Then why did we conclude arms control treaties (the Salt Agreements) with the Soviet Union?

Actually, when the Cold War ended,and the Soviet Union finally collapsed, many long-time Washington insiders (I remember Eagleburger in particular) confessed to a certain nostalgia for the "good old days": the Soviet Union had been, at least, "predictable." If you lie about everything, you are, by definition, unpredictable.

Personally, I would say that the Soviet leaders definitely concealed a lot, which is not quite the same thing as lying a lot.
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