re: #168 EPR-radar
The US record in the cold war was abysmal. The Berlin airlift and Marshall plan were clearly good actions, and the Korean war is also a net credit. But the negatives (e.g., Vietnam, Iran, Chile, Cuba, etc.) were appalling.
Pretty early on, the failure of communism to deliver on its promises was clear to anyone except blinkered zealots. With that background, the ideological victory vs. communism could be won simply by making capitalism work well enough for a large enough fraction of the population.
As we’ve seen since the fall of the USSR, this is apparently too much to ask.
Well, shit - we beat communism. Why do we have to keep working for everyone?
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