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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (134344)	3/23/2010 11:26:55 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542162

Yup, many think it was their involvement in Afghanistan. Hmmmm? Which might be a credit for Carter. Who knows. But the issue of ending the cold war has lots of fathers/mothers.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (134344)	3/24/2010 2:51:26 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542162

>>Yup, many think it was their involvement in Afghanistan. Hmmmm?<< A small part of it, but definitely a part. More problematic were the horrible inefficiencies of their autocratic control systems. There's a great example in their railroads. They had a shortage of locomotives, so goods were not able to move about the vast country efficiently. The only factory that made locomotives was thousands of miles away from the only factory that made the engines for those locomotives. The locomotive factory couldn't produce their locomotives fast enough to meet demand because they couldn't get the engines fast enough - due to the shortage of locomotives. That kind of crap will bring a country to its knees faster than speeches about walls will.