Rumsfield and Cheney were members of "Team B" during the elder Bush term where assesments were made of Soviet power and the results were:
For more than a third of a century, assertions of Soviet superiority created calls for the United States to "rearm."
In the 1980s, the call was heeded so thoroughly that the United States embarked on a trillion-dollar defense buildup.
As a result, the country neglected its schools, cities, roads and bridges, and health care system.
From the world's greatest creditor nation, the United States became the world's greatest debtor--in order to pay for arms to counter the threat of a nation "that was collapsing".
Needless to say there was money made from the tax payers dime....Lalepop'
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ReplyDeleteFor years the political and military leaders of the United States were able to use fear to promote a military establishment that today spends more on the military-industrial complex than the rest of the world's forces combined. That era is coming to an end.
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ReplyDeleteAnd now the Chinese are ticked off. For that matter, so is much of the rest of the world. Putin called the US "a parasite".