[Media Insurgent]

Remember everyone talking about the "Peace Dividend" that we would get from not having to spend money on defense? I think it was Tom Clancy who pointed out that when you maintain a strong defense, peace IS the dividend.

[Valin]

Some of us still remember hearing about the "Peace Dividend" at the end of the Viet-Nam war. It's as stupid then as it is now. It's all part of the "Can't we all just get along" syndrome, here in the real world the answer is NO! For every Mother Teresa I can show you 6(at least) Pol Pots.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We got our "peace dividend" on 9/11.

[Lael]

Remember everyone talking about the "Peace Dividend" that we would get from not having to spend money on defense?

Media Insurgent, I remember it well. The 'PEACE Dividend' was to have been National Health Care, and would have been, had not the national destraction that became the WACO Atrocity occurred.

Newt is given far too much credit for the 1994 takeover of Congress. Yes, the Contract With America contributed, but the sense that we needed, SOMEHOW, to put a brake on an out of control Administration, was overwhelming!

Clinton spent the rest of his political capital trying to destroy the Republican Party, and the rest, as they say, is History.

But, make no mistake, the Peace Dividend, in the early heady days of 1993, was to be National Health Care.

And, Yes, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Fall of the Twin Towers mark the bookends of a very unserious Decade.