>The biggest fallacy regarding it was the Soviet threat which was always >exaggerated. Neither militarily nor politically did the soviet Union (or >China and other 'communist allied') ever pose an existential threat to >the U.S.
So, if the US didn't fight the cold war, let it's military expenditures fall to the present level of Europe, didn't develop the B52 or ICBMs, stand aside where it fought in Korea, let missiles remain in Cuba and be expanded, didn't fight to stop the multiple Marxist COIN operations throughout the world that failed (e.g Greece), nothing much different would have happened...the US's position in 1995 would be no worse than it was as history actually unfolded. All the folks in IR studies are just full of it. Folks like Hoffman and Huntington are just right wing shrills? Containment was a waste of effort, we just had to wait because communists wouldn't bother to take advantage of a power vacuum. Am I getting you right, or did I misunderstand your statement? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
