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this "winning the cold war" crap is really driving me nuts, i'm getting so full of it i could puke.
stop me if i am wrong, but doesn't the united states still maintain a considerable nuclear aresenal? the former soviet union? it may not be as big as it was, but there's plenty of radioactive material there to fuck up the planet but good.
why do we persist in ignoring china as superpower, and say that the united states stands alone? china maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world and it's capacity to wage nuclear war is significant. oh yeah, news flash... reagan didn't defeat communism either, we just started sending our manufacturing jobs to them.
why do we ignore the fact that pakistan and india have enough warheads pointed at each other to make kashmir glow green for the next several decades? and they really are not fond of each other.
i have lived my whole life in the shadow of the knowledge that world destruction is only 24 minutes away at any time. that threat still exists and it always will. sorry, but even ronald reagan and his disciples couldn't spin that genie back into the bottle.
the "war on terror" and "cold war" share ghastly similarity when viewed as a means to justify using our government to do terrible things.
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