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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (233771)5/20/2005 6:32:50 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576521
 
Please stop being anal in your need for specificity

It doesn't have to be the exact same thing. The USSR was in terminal decline, and had a rottenness at its core even before the decline that far exceeded anything the US has ever had. Asserting the US is in any sort of absolute decline is highly questionable to say the least, but if it is the decline isn't even remotely like that of the USSR.

.I am talking ten years down the road spending like we are spending today.

Why do you assume that this will be the case?

Its not low.

Yes. It is


We are just going to have to disagree on this point. Arguing about who's sources are more biased will get us nowhere.

More and more guys are coming back with PTSS.

That is the nature of war. It doesn't mean moral is bad. We've had PTSS in every war we have fought although it wasn't always called that, but "Shell shock", and "Combat fatigue", and other terms all meant pretty much the same thing.

Tim
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