[DCPatriot]

We survived, prospered, and won a 30 year nuclear stalemate with the Soviet Union, and we did not do so by rushing into combat half cocked. We took some losses square on the chin in light of avoiding losses in much greater numbers.

Uh, Nikita and his boys didn't believe in 70 virgins for them in the hereafter and didn't use a religious ideology as a basis for their insanity.

[jeffers]

Nikita and his boys, used as basis for their insanity, a belief that Communism enjoyed a mathematical Manifest Destiny, but when it came to getting burned by blue fire, and when it came to the common sense necessary to out-produce an enemy, they proved less than the task.

You might want it right this second, but I personally guarantee you won't get it until certain critical elements fall into place, no way, no how, it simply will not be permitted to happen.

Till then this is all idle speculation, with, most likely, a healthy dose of pre-fight jitters mixed in.

Hurry up and wait.

The 72 hour ultimatum is almost half gone.