>>And there was no serious fear through the 70s that the US would be invaded.
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>>As to 'fear mongering' today - when 300 million people watch the two largest building in the country destroyed on live TV by people who were previously considered at worst an annoyance it creates an atmosphere.
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>>"at no time in the Cold War" - were you absent for the period between 1950 and 1970? I remember being taught to get under my desk 'when the atomic bombs fall' We played at the local Nike site and were told how many Russian ICBMs were pointed at it. Building fall-out shelters was an industry ( with how-tos in Popular Science ) and people read "On the Beach" and "Fail-Safe" and didn't shrug with post-modern irony.
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>>I realize the reality of islamofascism is very inconvenient for some political agendas and worldviews that are predicated on 'multi-culturalism' and liberal guilt, but the fact remains that there is a particular nihilistic death cult which at the moment is dedicating itself to doing as much damage as possible to what we think of as civilization.
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>>Do you seriously dispute that?
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>Yeah - what Charles said (I would have said it with less multisyllable words and grunted a few times)! :)
I do grunt a lot while I type < big coprophagic grin >
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
