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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
And I think you're alone if you believe the Cold War is still being waged and the US is losing it. The Cold War was the military, social and economic struggle between the "West" (or capitalist powers) and the communist parties of the USSR and allies (those behind the Iron Curtain). The war was "won' when the Soviet Union collapsed. We can argue about how that occurred and whether Reagan should be praised as winning it for the West, but it certainly is no longer being fought.
Mr Mephisto
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The Chicoms are still in power, and still pay more than lip service to the (BAD) ideas of communism. They're still a totalitarian state, intent on becoming a superpower, and which believes that they rightfully should dominate the world (the so-called "middle kingdom" syndrome). Their human rights record isn't what's wrong with China, it's a single SYMPTOM of what's wrong with China. That's why Clinton's selling of technology with military applications to them was such a big deal. Remember the Recon plane that the chinese rammed and captured in '01? How about their building of a "blue-water" navy? YOU may think the cold war is over, but I don't, and far more importantly, the CHINESE don't.
"Better Dead than Red" isn't just a pithy slogan, it's a goal we should be actively working towards.
/no fan of communism or it's offshoots