Originally posted by 47 YEAR OLD VIRGIN:
??That??s what Reagan did with Gorbachev,? he said, adding: ??I mean, think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela ?? these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don??t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ??We??re going to wipe you off the planet.?? ?
What's being argued here? Iran and Cuba
are tiny countries compared to Mother Russia. Hell, they're tiny compared to California. And these countries are not creating their own alliance of Iron Curtain countries to the degree that Russia did.
Iran is unique to Cold War-era Soviet Union in that its politics are governed by religion. But its foolish to think that the current dick-waving between the US and Iran even remotely compares to the Cold War, which involved numerous other countries, was a driving factor in causing two American wars, was propeled onward by each countries' space programs, and was a major concern/fear in people's lives (in the US and USSR anyway).
Think about all the dramatic shit that came out of it. The Berlin Airlift, Korean War, the Red Scare/McCarthy, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, nuclear proliferation, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Ronald Reagan, Olympics boycotts, etc etc etc.
And THAT is why we need a Bicyclist's Bill of Rights in Washington.
