The Rethugs miss the Cold War...

[RethugAssKicker]

that's why we are exaggerating the dangers of "Terra".

We are absolutely exaggerating this terrorism threat... making it much bigger that what it really is. America must have a boogeyman to keep us hating/fearing and to keep the military industrial complex going. Eisenhower warned us of this 50 years ago, of course we paid no attention!

[marmar]

1. Of course they do...

To the point that they'd concoct a phoney war and create enemies out of whole cloth to ensure that the military-industrial complex stays intact. Could it also have prompted them to engineer our own version of the Reichstag burning? I don't want to get all tinfoilhat-tish on everyone, but after listening to David Griffin on Mike Malloy last night, it's sounding more and more plausible. :tinfoilhat: :think:

[RethugAssKicker]

2. I agree.... I am not a conspiracy theorist but...

I'm starting to listen to the MIHOP/LIHOP reasoning more and more.

[FloridaPat]

3. Eisenhower's family said the actual quote was to be carefule of

the military-industrial-congressional complex.

[NoPasaran]

4. To be perfectly honest, so do I

I felt much safer and more secure back then than I do now.

[Joe Fields]

5. The cold war was the fuel that kept the military industrial

engine running. Some politicians, (Ted Kennedy, for one) insisted on a "Peace Dividend" in 1992. They wanted a rollback of the defense dept. budget, and the savings invested into social programs. The proposal was resoundingly defeated.

[enigma000]

6. It was far more simpler then

Us vs Them. We wore white because we were (for the most part) the good guys. They wore black because they were (more often that not) the bad guys.

We had the free world - independent nations united in their own self-defense. They had an evil empire with captive nations. It was less complicated. Of course you could say the same for WWII.

But we could have lost eventually - either through nuclear war, or just losing interest in the whole thing and slowly surrendering. So, in the end, I'm glad it's over and I'm glad we won.

[tanyev]

7. Ah, yes, those were the glory days.

And remember how all the families in the 1950s were so warm and loving and nurturing and religious and perfect?