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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (133265)2/21/2001 4:47:55 PM
From: pgerassi  Read Replies (1) of 1570506
 
Dear Scumbria:

You claimed that Reagan over spent money on the build up because the USSR was a "house of cards". You may have thought that while there but no one here including the analyst you and Amy quoted believed that at that time. Hindsight is great. How many bad calls have you made that hindsight showed them to be disasters. It is easy to second guess with more information than anyone, including those self same Russians, knew at that time. And if you knew that the economy was in shambles, did you think at that time the Russian Army were paper tigers or that the KGB would allow you to bad mouth the leadership?

We could not assume that the collapse would be as peaceful and quick as it was. It could have been very bad both in lives lost and in things destroyed. Furthermore, the policy of the buildup was created before or during the 1980 Presidential campaign and carried out by Reagan when he won (fulfilled his promises during the campaign). The Soviet Army was not a paper tiger at that time (you did not go against it, neither did your parents).

So the post was about second guessing things after the fact is quite easy. Deciding at the moment with limited information or conflicting information is quite hard.

Pete
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