>From Jed: ...
> They also said the Soviet Threat was wildly overblown. They said this in 1964, > but few people believed them back then. The full extent of the exaggerations did > not become clear to everyone until after the cold war ended. It works both ways; > the Soviets were much more afraid of the U.S. than they should have been. Fascinating, I realize I'm getting off-topic here, but I often wonder about the North Korean "threat". Here we have North Korea's fearless leader, Kim jong il, and his regime which by all accounts has been difficult to parse by our standards of rationale. One assumes the regime knows full well that if they were to do something naughty their reign of power would be toppled in short order. Of course this would quickly result in a very upset China as it gets the brunt of the fallout as hoards of scared and starving refugees start crashing their borders. I tend to think most of the N. Korean rhetoric is for private consumption rather than for our ears. The fear of imminent invasion often seem to play a big part of making sure the masses pay little attention of the "regime" behind the curtain. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks .
