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Cuban Missle Crisis Not ‘Serious Threat’
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Tagged: Barack Obama, National Security
This may come as a shock to some of you reading this but I still hold out hope that Republicans and Democrats can find common cause. Sure we may disagree on basically everything but I still try to cling to the belief that right wingers are intelligent and honestly concerned with the best interests of our children and our nation. I desperately want to believe that what separates us is not our view of reality but our view of how best to fix our problems.
In what must be a concerted effort to prove me wrong the morons over at NRO have written what has to be one of the most ignorant and dangerous things I have read in a long time. It would be hard to overstate how completely moronic some right wingers are. Whats sad is that there are millions of Americans who have their heads so far up their asses that shit like this makes sense to them.
The Soviet Union never killed 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania by crashing jets into skyscrapers. The definition of a “serious threat” is different today than it was a generation ago.
There are only two ways to read this statement. First is that ’serious threat’ means much less than it did a generation ago. This would imply that Americans are cowards now and would go against Republicans strategy of scaring people into voting Republican. The other possible meaning is that we are under a greater threat now than before. This fits more in context and sounds scarier. I’m pretty sure that this is what he was meaning.
If anyone reading this honestly believes that terrorists could present the kind of threat that the Soviet Union presented during the cold war then you seriously need to educate yourself. In the terrorists wildest wettest dreams they could not come within miles of being the ’serious threat’ that the Soviet Union presented. Dumbasses.
Here is a little history lesson. The Cuban Missile Crisis arguably took the world closer than any other event in history to a thermonuclear world war III. Whats more, the crisis was resolved through diplomacy that if applied to the same “standards” as the right wingers are using against Obama would be considered worse than appeasement.
Thanks for reading. Sorry for any offensive language. Read more at Newshoggers. If you are reading that piece differently please let me know.
William ~ WWJV4.com
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Posted On: May 19, 2008
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December 24, 2008
11:22 pm
If they really meant that they ( the USSR) posed less of a threat than Terrorists in amount of damage possible, then they are talking out their asses. Now if they meant amount of damage that can be done without sufficient retaliation, they could be right there. These terrorists are not part of a regular army. The general view of the world these days is that these terrorist organizations, while operating in countries, are not necessarily OF these countries. This makes retaliation for that kind of strike very difficult. Who could ya nuke justifiably? We can get into a war and use Roman methods to sort them out possibly, but it is not a surefire success, and it drags the US through the mud, possibly furthering the terrorist agenda.
Basically, the main thing that makes them a bigger threat, is the lack of a clear point of retaliation. Being with no fixed hq that we know of, they can potentially always hold the initiative, and we have to perpetually be on the defense.