Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what majority wants Bush?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Chad Whiting wrote:

> I didn't think the USSR was tiny though. I could be wrong, but if they 
> were so tiny and it was so insignificant why did we go to all the 
> trouble of funding the 'cold war' in the first place?

Excellent question.  Simple answer:  follow the money.
Listen to Eisenhower:

   http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

   "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
   unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-
   industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
   power exists and will persist."

This is not a problem that has simply gone away.


> And why all the 'duck and cover' drills?

To maintain a state of fear so that the money could flow from tax payers 
to the bomb-making, tank-making, fighter-jet-making corporations.


> Not to mention all the small countries that broke off from the USSR when 
> it broke up, in my opinion it wasn't tiny.

Right, Uzbekistan is a very powerful nation.  In reality, Russia may have 
weakened itself by incorporating those weak, little countries, and then 
having to maintain them and keep them from killing one another.

Mike
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