lbo-talk-digest V1 #4993

[Chris Doss]

>Yes, on a cost-benefit basis it would seem we have gotten absolutely 
>zilch national security for all the billions we've spent -- whatever 
>the exact number may be -- on glitzy weaponry.

What are you talking about? The U.S. has successfully dominated the 
world for the last 50 years, destroying its longtime rival, crushing 
any ideological, political, or military challenge to its rule, and 
pacifying the domestic population. If that isn't success, I don't 
know what is. The downing of the WTC, while it may be the beginning 
of something very ugly, can hardly be considered the end of the 
imperium.

Doug

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I wait take some issue with teh claim that the US defeated the USSR, the
demise of which had a lot to do with infighting among the nomenklatura.
Hell, the whole reason Yeltsin disassembled the Soviet Union was to get rid
of the hated, and overly democratic, Gorbachev.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal