Joshua Bell wrote:
>"K.Feete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>As for the "dark shadows of communism", turned out to be more a "sort of
>>grey spot on the wall that America used as an excuse to kill hundreds of
>>thousands of people, spend millions of billions of dollars, and make a
>>lot of noise," didn't it?
>
>Would it still have been merely a "gray spot on the wall" had America acted
>differently? Would the USA have won the Cold War if it hadn't been fighting
>it, and making the USSR do likewise?
Hmmm, well, the USSR seemed to collapse all on its own, frankly. I don't
seem to recall us having much to do with it. And, from my history lessons
at least, I don't remember America taking any sort of real *action*
during the Cold War. There was Korea (disaster), Vietnam (*gigantic*
disaster), the Cuban missile crisis, a lot of posturing, a lot of good
sci-fi about the possibility of nuclear war, and McCarthy. Whether or not
this had anything to do with the fall of the USSR is... debatable.
Kat Feete
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I think if you've got a T-shirt with bloodstains all
over it, maybe your laundry isn't your biggest problem.
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