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Asgaya Dihi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 01:26 PM
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2. They think we're stupid
And they might be right, at least on a large scale with the nation as a whole. Remember the missile gap we heard so much about when the Soviets were still a going concern? We had to pump money into the military, we had to build up because we'd fallen so far behind in a number of ways. When the Soviets fell it turns out that the gap was garbage and the official estimate was closer, though that had been overstated as well. Many wouldn't have even fired, the seals in the silos leaked and they were full of water. Troops hadn't been paid in months in many cases and their military was a wreck.

Some of the same people who handed us the missile gap also handed us the WMD fairy tale, and the press never said a word about their history. It's an old playbook that seems to work, why change it? Hell, you don't even need to change the people involved, give it a decade or two and they can repeat the same mistakes with us none the wiser for it.
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