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Section 6: International Subject: China virus Msg# 1096626
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My definition of 'The Cold War' involves The United States and The Soviet Union. That's what we were made to understand in grade school (Duck and Cover), Saturday noon-time-siren-blasting-air raid tests... and the like. If you ask anybody over the age of 60 to define The Cold War you'll get my definition 90% of the time.
The incidents listed in the 'Conflicts Related to the Cold War' are mostly unrelated. What do two Korean airliners shot from the sky; a dozen or so coups lasting less than a week, or the Iraqi '14-July Revolution' that slogged on and on until the 15th of July, have to do with the palpable fear the world experienced as the two Cold War countries war-danced their way in and out of nuclear confrontations? |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: All kinds of slants on this, now centered on verbiage or semantics. But never any intention to diminish our great respect for the servicemen of those times. I'm thinking that most folks who take a look at all those conflicts on the Wiki list would admit there's plenty of reasons to doubt the terminology of "cold" within that title -- cold war. Click Here |
