I noted you failed to be specific, and I haven't a clue what your talking about.
Weren't you the one that wrote this?
So they present a different threat, one that is militarily weak, but one which presents a more immediate and real threat of millions of dead Americans than the Soviets ever did.
These terrorist, cave dwellers other assorted cab drivers present more of a threat than the former Soviet Union did? Hehehe.
How is this presented? By bombing night clubs or flying borrowed airplanes into business offices?
You need to go check your history friend. Every single major city in this country was targeted by the Soviet Union with ICBMs. Those are intercontinental ballistic missiles with *major* payloads. And you sit here and tell me these towelheads are more of a threat to this country than the former Soviet Union?
I disagree with just about everything you've said, and statements like "the terrorist pose a larger threat than the former Soviet Union did", clearly makes you the crank here, not I.
Best regards....
I agree that the Soviet Threat was greater. I remember growing up in the 70's and fearing an attack since we lived in an urban area which was full of factories making jet fighters and other weapons.
But there is one difference. Our country has changed since the WW2 and Cold War days. My Parents and Uncles generation seemed to be more unified in meeting the challenges that they faced. Today, the demographics are different and we have more leftist, rinos, and the MTV generation that we have to deal with. Don't get me wrong, we have some fine people today. A friend of mine has a cousin in the marines fighting in Iraq and has just been awarded the Bronze Star (I have to say that he's 42 years old).
What it come down to is that the Soviets were a greater threat but as a country, we were up to the task of defeating the. The question is, does President Bush have the needed citizens to beat back them extremist Muslims. I think so but the country is certainly much more divided now than it was under President Reagan.
I don't mean to take anything away from President Reagan. He did defeat the Soviet Union but did he defeat Communism? It seems to me that the left has taken on a new form and maybe more dangerous in the likes of George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and the people at the Ford Foundation.
So al Qaeda is both worse and not worse than the German Nazis: It is hardly the identifiable threat of Hitler's Wehrmacht, but in this age of technology and weapons of mass destruction it is more able to kill more Americans inside the United States. Whereas we think our fascist enemies of old were logical and conniving, too many of us deem bin Laden's new fascists unhinged ? their fatwas, their mythology about strong and weak horses, and their babble about the Reconquista and the often evoked "holy shrines" are to us dreamlike.
Exactly what I said--this enemy is not militarily strong, but more capable of reaching the US and inflicting grievous losses. But, you know more than VDH and me, right?