Mr. Glasnost

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:53 pm

From here.

Edited By GORDON on 1088124291

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:10 am

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:16 am

I figured this was a more accurate representation of what Gorby said.

unkbill · Post by **unkbill** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:16 pm

I thought he was right on. We all lost the cold war because we wasted alot of money and noone dominated another.

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:48 pm

unkbill wrote:I thought he was right on. We all lost the cold war because we wasted alot of money and noone dominated another.

Unless you count that one of the competitors... you know... ceased to exist.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:04 am

Aye, even I'll say capitalism beat the commies. Expensive as all hell, but a victory nonetheless.

Post by **Vince** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:33 am

I guess in reality, everyone in a war "loses". The winner is the one that loses the least. And as Gordo said, since they ceased to exist and we're still here... W1NN3r!

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:58 am

When it comes to war, the only winning move is . . . not to play.

Post by **TPRJones** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:24 pm

We won the cold war. Not because the commies are gone, but because we got a huge technological boost from having "fought" it.

Cost us? Hell, the cost of building some nukes is nothing comapred to how nicely it pushed our economy into a seriously tech-based footing over the years. I attribute a fair amount of our recent economic troubles to the eventual impact of not having a strong national "enemy" to compete against anymore.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:44 pm

This is a little off topic, but your comment reminded me of something I saw on TV the other day.

During the race to get to the moon, the Soviet Union had the advantage of larger space pods, because their technology was worse.

See, the U.S. was able to compact the size of their nukes. Since our warheads could be small we developed small rockets for our ICMB's.

The Soviets couldn't shrink their nukes so they had to develop much larger rockets to carry the larger payload.

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:24 pm

Interesting.