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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: oldirtybastard who wrote (111340)	2/12/2008 11:52:50 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 132070

You're entitled to your opinion, wrong as it may be.

To: oldirtybastard who wrote (111340)	2/12/2008 12:18:34 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

First, the cold war isn't over. Putin says the US lining his borders with new missiles will start a new cold war. But there were many reasons for the warming of US/USSR relations. 1. The Soviet hierarchy got old and died. The people in charge were no longer officers during WWII, when Russia came close to being destroyed. 2. The US lost an expensive war in Vietnam for no reason. 3. The Soviets lost an expensive war in Afghanistan, for no reason. Not to be confused with the US currently fighting a sensible cheap war in Afghanistan for good reason. 4. The US stood strong against Soviet aggression from 1948 on. Reagan didn't have anything to do with the Berlin Airlift, which was the key stroke of The Cold War. "Ich bin ein Berliner" let them know that attacking the west was attacking the United States, and that would be a bad thing for them. As did the Cuban missile crisis. Sadly, we suckered Hungarians into fighting the Soviets in 1956, promising them help then walking away while they were slaughtered. But it did show the Soviets the fragility of their empire. Czechoslovakia in 1968 was another demonstration of the weakness of their empire. That was my bailiwick and I hate in when right wing nut jobs ignore our contributions back then. 5. The death of Brezhnev, the Soviet Union's only effective leader after Stalin, gave the empire another big shake. Lots of stuff going on in The Cold War before and after Crazy Ronnie, who did make a contribution. It's just that the short attention span and historical shallowness of right wingers only allow them to give credit to one person.