From: "Robert Comer" 

> I've never said that the USSR was lily white but I do think it's important
> to acknowledge that their fear of the US was demonstrably justifiable and
> that,

As was our fear of them.

>by virtually any measure, the US threat to the USSR (number of
> warheads, etc.) far, far exceeded anything the USSR could have brought to
> bear on the US.

Not correct.

> The US, too, was not lily white but, for some people and for some reason,
> that perspective seems to be contentious when it should be seen as
> blindingly obvious.

I'm not one of those few that think we are lily white.

- Bob Comer


"John Beamish"  wrote in
message news:413bbf53$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I've never said that the USSR was lily white but I do think it's important
> to acknowledge that their fear of the US was demonstrably justifiable and
> that, by virtually any measure, the US threat to the USSR (number of
> warheads, etc.) far, far exceeded anything the USSR could have brought to
> bear on the US.
>
> The US, too, was not lily white but, for some people and for some reason,
> that perspective seems to be contentious when it should be seen as
> blindingly obvious.
>
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:413b84fd$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> No but Afghanistan, several other breakaway republics, and the current
> one,
>> Chechnya, which makes Iraq look like a party.
>>
>> To think that the U.S.S.R (and now Russia) was lily white is just plain
>> wrong, they had the capacity, just like us, to destroy the world, an they
>> weren't/still aren't afraid to use their military might should they think
>> it's necessary.
>>
>>
>
>

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