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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Bill on the Hill who wrote (33976)8/21/2005 10:41:33 PM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (2) of 361517
 
I was thinking about the Cold War in the context of the current War on Terror. How much was the Cold War about a real threat versus an exaggerated one like the terror threat? I can't believe our "leaders" really took the Soviet threat all that seriously when they engaged in a demoralizing war in SE Asia for 15 long years at the height of the Cold War. During Viet Nam they actually bombed Soviet supply ships. Is that a smart move when you're supposedly in a precarious situation with another great power? The Soviet threat was supposedly coming from the East across Europe, and where did we send our military? In the opposite direction to fight a phantom menace known as the Viet Namese. As if the Viet Namese were actually going to ever attack the U.S.?

Actions speak louder than words. Our actions during the Cold War tell us we really didn' take the Soviet threat as seriously as we told the people. As you said, for profits. No serious threat means much less money for the good ole military industrial complex.

JFK realized the insanity of this mentality and was ready to pull the plug on Viet Nam and normalize realtions with the Soviet Union (once our ally in WW2). Of course, the military industrial complex pulled the plug on JFK before he could take us down a more enlightened path.
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