Re: [OT] I hate being American
From: Mark Fergerson (nunya_at_biz.ness)
Date: 01/20/05
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:22:16 -0700
Rick Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 05 11:48:04 GMT, jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>>In article <357sc5F4guah4U2@individual.net>,
>> "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:
>>>John Larkin wrote:
>>>>Same thing that's kept the UK from using its nukes?
>>>
>>>Mutual Assuree Destruction is what kept WWW3 from happening while the
>>>Soviet Union still stood.
>>
>>More importantly, the Russians believed that the West
>>would retaliate immediately with lots of nukes if they
>>ever tried it. The West tried to disspell this belief
>>in the late 70s with the philosophy that talking at
>>the Russians would keep them from attacking. This was
>>only 25 years ago and we're back to to bad philosophy
>>again.
> Can there really be people in 8 unrelated groups interested in reading
> this stuff?
There are replies generated from all groups, so...
> And do you have any evidence at all that the Russians wanted to nuke
> anybody?
Yeah, sure; the Cuban missile crisis was all a misunderstanding; the
Soviets were merely giving some of their missile techs a nice vacation
in sunny Cuba, and the techs simply took some of their work with them,
right?
> AFAIK, the only time in the last 55 years when this was seriously
> considered was when MacArthur wanted to nuke the Chinese; and I don't
> recall that he was a Russian.
You are either ignorant or were educated by revisionists. Krushchev
in particular would have been extremely pleased to nuke the US if he
thought he could have gotten away with a pre-emptive strike. But MAD won
out; he knew in his bones that if he struck first, World Communism would
have been permamently killed, and even at his table-pounding worst he
couldn't allow that.
Mark L. Fergerson
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