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Originally Posted by Slartibartfas
Well, let it be as it is.
Cold war is over anyway, luckily. And if history would have been different who knows how the world would look like today.
PS:
I did not try to suggest that Russia were better than the US. If it looked like that I am sorry for that. After all I would be the last fan of Russia, after all what they stole from my country just to agree to leave it again... its just that many in American (not you probably) still have some sort of Commie-phobia that is a bit exaggerated.
PPS: If you are interested, have a look at my newly uploaded pictures in the newly again opened USPO pictures gallery. Just follow the link in my signature.  |
Slarti, If you thought I was mad at you, like you sometimes I get a little intense over things. I lived through most of the cold war and remember things like the duck and cover drills. (like hiding under wooden desk in a classroom was going to protect us from a nuclear blast.) I remember the doomsday clock which for most of the formative years of my life seemed to be perpetually set on 10 seconds or less to midnight. That is one reason why I do not get as concerned over terrorism as some people do, especially the younger people who weren't alive or don't remember the days when it wasn't a little radiation here or there that was of concern but the end of humanity. Don't get me wrong I think we should fight back against terror, but what the terrorists promise is a far cry from Mutually Assured Destruction. Anyway when I see people trying to understand events without looking at the context in which those events happened I do get a little incensed. We are all guilty of that though to some degree when discussing events based on a history text. I do it when I talk about France and England before WWII and I know it. Its hard not to do that when you have no personal connection to the events themselves.
I think we need to learn from history, and to do that you indeed do have to re-examine. However to simply criticize the people making the decisions at the time, unless you have clear evidence that they knew better, seems to me to be trying to revise history and that we shoud not do.
By the way cool pictures of Wien. I will be in San Diego, Cleveland, Chicago and I think Des Moines and Annapolis as well over the next 30 to 45 days. I Will take some pictures from these various locations to give you a flavor. I will try to get more of the neighborhood shots as opposed to the downtown shots since we spend very little time other than work in most of our cities, with some exceptions of course.