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To: tejek who wrote (330886)	3/30/2007 9:37:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572946

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. 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" The cold war also played out in different contents, from two fairly decent sized wars in Asia, to a massive face off of conventional forces in Europe, to aggressive posturing and simulated attacks by the two sides forces all over the world, to extensive espionage, to all sorts of minor conflicts and proxy wars on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Meanwhile back in the US we had a much larger army (despite the smaller population), strong concern about communist infiltration (ranging from legitimate concern about infiltration by actual communist agents, to McCarthyism's worst excesses), and "duck and cover" being taught to school kids. "It wasn't at the drop of a hat, not even close." I exaggerated only slightly. You made a vast exaggeration.