From giles, on Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:04:51 GMT (in response to: Wars the U.S. won without help)
The american attitude to communism, strikes a rather remarkable Resemblance a lot of other attitudes to something they nothing about.
If it is not the way of good old uncle sam then it has to be communist.
The great american defeat of communism in Europe, lets take a look closely at what really happened.
america took on the USSR in a power struggle battle, forcing the USSR to try and match the power spending of the us. After a while the USSR became bankrupt and couldn't support it's previous efforts, so when communism failed and capitalism took over people who could afford to live buy food etc. now couldn't. These very poor people who now had control over the soviet bloc nuke, chemical and biological agents had to find a way of making money.
Now lets see 1+1=2.
For those of you who have half a brain you will realise that good old uncle sam has just made the world a more dangerous place.
For those of you without any brains, the world now has lots of nukes, chemicals, and biological agents, which are now under the control of anyone, who can create a government or bribe some starving, scientist and guess where it is going....
As someone on this board said to me with great power comes great responsibility, the america use some common sense and use your power wisely, not just to benefit your greedy selves.
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