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Message:: [QUOTE="Azpatriot, post: 1266640, member: 32979"]Curious to know if you were even alive in 1975 or all of this knowledge is coming out of a book. We could not of fought a war in 1975-80 if it was dropped on our doorstep....that 5 years the military was as weak as it was in the 5 years leading up to WW2. The massive spending in the 80's was a result of trying to make our military look like one that belonged to a superpower (which it did not). As far as my numbers I did mention in my post an estimated 1-2 trillion dollars on the current wars over the last decade, those numbers were OMB congressional numbers for the armed services, please read the full post before commenting on the numbers. On the cold war premise I honestly don't think you were around in 1975 or you would know better than to make those statements. We were in no condition economically, militarily or any other way to be aggressive in the cold war, we bashfully sat in the corner as there was no way the public was going to back an escalation at that time, but that does not mean it was gone or was ceasing to exist.   [video=youtube;IHO4M_Tar7A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHO4M_Tar7A[/video][/QUOTE]