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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (393555)6/23/2008 4:24:36 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578501
 
I wasn't afraid back then, no one I knew was. Liberals are always afraid about many things, most of them were more afraid of global cooling back then , more so then Russia



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (393555)6/23/2008 4:27:12 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578501
 
Sounds like the fears of nuclear war were "overblown." The Soviet Union was a "pimple on our ass" ...

Yeah, could be. Maybe that's why I'm not shaking in my boots over terrorism... when you were 10 years old and they were teaching imminent Armageddon in school and on TV it's hard to sweat the little guys in the head scarfs hiding in caves somewhere.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (393555)6/23/2008 6:49:13 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578501
 
"Sounds like the fears of nuclear war were "overblown.""

Probably. As it turns out, the government consistently overestimated the threat for political reasons.

There is a lesson here for the astute.

The threat was the total destruction of our civilization and the deaths of probably hundreds of millions or even billions of people.

How can the threat of terrorism exceed that?