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To: Neocon who wrote (87695)	3/29/2003 3:49:13 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Interesting article. I don't deny that the "Evil Empire" talk emboldened (years later) the Ghandian non-violent resistors who destroyed that Empire. And I don't deny that the U.S. could afford an arms race better than the Soviets could, and that this produced economic strains on them. I just think that all was a side-show, not the main event. It's not so much that I disagree with your facts (although I could quibble with a few), as with your self-congratulatory interpretation of those facts. And I suspect people will be having this exact discussion, 100 years from now. Both sides are erecting a History that says the methods they champion won the Cold War. And, which interpretation is the consensus, in the future, will be determined mainly by what methods (force or non-violent resistance) are used by our descendants in their own time. That's the way history is always used.