From: Jeff Shultz 

You know, you can claim that they were 'already collapsing' from this
wonderful position of hindsight.

But it sure as heck wasn't so obvious in the early 80s.

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:21:09 -0400, John Beamish wrote:

> That sounds to me as if Kerry was clearly more insightful in recognizing
> that the USSR was already collapsing and nothing was going to stop the
> implosion.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:413b46f1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Kerry opposed them from the beginning not just after the cold war was
>> won
> by
>> Reagan's military buildup.  Kerry opposed the Reagan military buildup in
> the
>> 80s and supported such pro Soviet Union things as a nuclear freeze.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>

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