And by the way, the Soviets had nuclear weapons for 40 years - aimed right at our cities - and we didn't need to invade the Soviet Union in order to protect ourselves or defeat them.
Absolutely nothing. It did not require an invasion to take out Osirek in Iraq. It did take an invasion to find out what happened to 605 abducted Kuwaitis, hundreds of missing Iranians, and hundreds of thousands of missing Iraqis, to force compliance with the Gulf War cease fire terms and so lift sanctions, and to end the Iraqi support of Abu Nidal, the PFLP, the UN fatcats, and a number of other scoundrels.
By the way, one of the ways we took out the Soviet Union was by saboutaging their moneymaking oil pipeline. The USSR did not simply collapse all by itself, though it finally did so after killing millions and creating famine around the globe. If it had been taken out sooner a lot more people would be alive today and Iraq never would have been a problem, nor Iran, nor Afghanistan, etc.
"And by the way, the Soviets had nuclear weapons for 40 years - aimed right at our cities - and we didn't need to invade the Soviet Union in order to protect ourselves or defeat them."
The Soviets weren't religious cult fanatics hell bent on Islam dominating the world and killing all the infidels. The mark of that dark corner of the world is the total inability to be rational. Most of the intellectuals left that country around '79; the rest were murdered.
That's a big difference.