From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:15:54 -0400, John Beamish  wrote:

> Able?  Probably.  Willing?  Why bother ... after WWII the Russian borders
> were secure and they had a buffer of client states.
>
> The US, however, was deliberately provocative during the cold war
> (positioning missiles in Turkey which directly led to the Russian
> attempt to
> put missiles in Cuba), U2 overflights, and engaging in a variety of other
> actions that were, charitably speaking, not designed to reduce tensions.
>
> You may wish to cite counter-examples.  Don't.  Both sides played the
> game;
> the US was a cowboy and it wasn't the one in the white hat.
>
And you would have been high on the hitlist without the "cowboy."

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Gary Wiltshire

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