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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Containment WORKED, though. Russian Communism is dead (or at least, coughing up blood). Yes, it cost us. Everything that works, costs. Here we see a double-standard at work. The talking heads can criticize everything and anything, but nobody can criticize the talking heads. [QUOTE](a) forcibly doubled its size through conquest, [/QUOTE] There is a moral difference between aggresively conquering your neighbors (which Israel didn't do) and being ganged-up-upon by several other countries, defeating them anyway, and then creating 'buffer zones' to preserve your central core's security. Put it this way: if the US and Russia declared themselves enemies of Canada and attacked, and Canada somehow fought back and kicked ass, siezing, say, Alaska and Maine and part of Siberia in the process, and kept them (later giving back Siberia as part of a peace deal), that would be different than if Canada had simply attacked and taken Alaska and Maine without being provked. [QUOTE](b) became far and away the most-heavily armed nation between Europe and the Indian subcontinent, and [/QUOTE] If you faced CONSTANT, fanatical aggression, you'd soon find that it was practical to be more well-armed than your adversaries, too. [QUOTE] (c) developed the military-industrial conplex to independently maintain that status to the present day. [/QUOTE] How else would one do (b)? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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