18 Feb 2014 9:21 am
Just as you are sending signals. Well, one signal: You HAVE to be right.Cannonpointer » 17 Feb 2014 2:32 pm » wrote: Yes, the narrative. As usual, fetishizing all things military and understanding military issues are very different things, son.
The Soviets did not need to match us bullet for bullet to defend themselves against us. The MAD doctrine obviated a nuclear war. You may pretend the Soviets did not reciprocate in adhering to that doctrine, but your argument would be with actual history - not with me. They certainly never went nuclear. They went gently into that good night.
To beat the Soviets in a prolonged Asian land war, we would need to project many, many times the power with which they resisted - and every ounce of projected power would cost our economy more than every pound of resistance they generated.
I won't bother to explain any of that to you, because it's obvious you prefer fanciful narratives over manly truth - why waste the words? I include it in my response for the men on the board.
As to the rest, tell me again about the peace dividend and how much safer we all are on account of Reagan's profligate spending on the corporatocracy that IKE warned us about. I don't remember ceding civil rights out of fear of Reds, son. But the beardy beardies sure made you girls drop trou.
Here is the bottom line: In 1961, Ike Eisenhower warned us about Reagan. In 2014, you still haven't gotten the memo, and are spewing right wing talking points as contextual, historical reality. I'm not saying your gay...
But you clearly are sending some signals, son.
You can blather on about your talking points regarding "ounce of projected vs pound of resistance" all day long. What I have stated above is what happened.
Part of what you read in history misses the obvious (just like the more recent revisionist WMD crap). In fact Bill Clinton, your hero, used this ploy which I will use on you:
What did we know at the time?
I remembered the stuff I posted as I said. That's what was in peoples' minds at the time. The fact that the Soviets were a complete paper tiger and caved was not commonly known but heavily suspected. Their actions based on desperation could have been something wholly different than what people THOUGHT might happen. They have a military/industrial/political complex too (the term IKE wanted to actually use).
Acting like you would have known something decades ago isn't manly at all. Use that **** on the queers.
Your mama raised a gay, too. Was it you or your trollop brother?
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.
I like the very things you hate.