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You are wrong.

Vietnam -- Even in our defeat, we demonstrated the price we were willing to pay to stop Soviet expansion, the costs to the USSR were more significant then the dollars that we spent.==

You sound like Soviets got afraid of America? Laughable. Soviets withstood huge war with Htler which costed 20 mlns of lifes. Do you ready to pay 20 mlns of lifes to crush Soviet Union?

Afghanistan -- The Soviet defeat by those they viewed with disdain and contempt demonstrated that with proper support of their opposition that they could be made to suffer both economically and in the eyes of the world.==

Eyes of the world doesn't much matter. Especcially the world is not end on West. There are many other sides of the world.

Ronald Reagan -- He warned them, he told them, he showed them and he did it through determination.==

When Reagan proclaimed his program of Star wars he accualy helped soviet hardliners to strenthen thier power. If America continued such program then today we would see Soviet Union standing there stronger then ever. And America would need to start thermonuclier war to crush Soviet Union.

Would you ready to start thermonuclier war with SOviet Union?

I don't think so if today America is catious to start war even with North Korea under real fear that they may use thier allergedly nuclier bomb.

No, you are misinterpreting what I have said. We defeated the Soviets not based on instilling fear in them and of course they could have cared less about the lives they lost to war, famine, disease, you name it. We defeated them economically. We drove them past what they could accomplish, while maintaining any comfortable standard of living for their people.

We pushed them until they imploded. They saw what we did, what we went through, Vietnam, Jimmy Carter (gas lines, inflation, high interest) and how we emerged as strong, if not stronger then ever.