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To: bentway who wrote (160809)4/21/2005 8:00:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 281500
 
I never considered that Soviet expansionism, just a local squabble. The fact the parties got their guns from different sources was irrelevant

By that reckoning, every single proxy war of the Cold War was just a "local squabble". Might I suggest that the opinion that mattered was not yours, but that of the two superpowers and all the other players on the board?