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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (331007)4/1/2007 11:37:54 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1572924
 
WW II was a very big war, playing out on 4 continents. To compare the current psyche to then, its comparing apples and oranges.

You can reasonably compare apples to oranges. You just wouldn't reasonably expect them to be the same.

That's why you don't compare them.........the info such comparisons provide is not very useful.

Yes WW II was a very big war. I never said we should expect to be as militaristic as we where then, I only pointed out that were not, indeed that we are massively less focused on the military.

But that wasn't my main point. I, like you, was focused on the cold war period. Right before the part of my statement that you quoted, I said - "Influence over the American psyche" is not something that you can have objective numbers on, but it seems unreasonable to say that military concerns have more influence on our psyche then in the height of the cold war"

Bush/Cheney has put us right back where we were during the Cold War. GOPers have a great deal of paranoia and they see danger and enemies where there are none. They call Dems soft on security but the problem really rests with them.

"It wasn't at the drop of a hat, not even close."

I exaggerated only slightly.

You made a vast exaggeration.

Sorry that you see it that way but Bush/Cheney invade countries like I eat dinner. If they were not constricted by the military, the US would be in Iran right now.
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