No one won the "Cold War". First of all, the Soviet Union was no more threat to this country than the Jews were to Hitler or Iraqi is to this country now. History is full of polical leaders whipping up war hysteria to get elected. Works so well were are seeing it used now.
Second we squandered trillions of dollars and sixty+ years fighting this phony war. Our schools are a shadow of what they would be if we spent even a small part of our defense budget on them. Same for hospitals, roads, bridges, police and fire services, the list goes on and on..
Wasted over fifty eight thousand young American men's lives in Vietnam. Look at Vietnam now, is there anything going on there now (or then) that was worth the life of even one American solder's life?
As for the rest of the world, Kosovo, Bosnia, all the wars in Africa, Afghanistan, and there by September 11th. all resulting from the Cold war.. All results of this country destabilizing countries all over the world. This country has help overthrow democraticly elected leaders in many in every corner of this world, and installed ruthless dictators, who we let massacre their citizens as long as they sell there oil, bannas or what ever to us at prices we dictate. Saddam Hussein and ben Laden were both given free reign and more wepons they could use to fight this Cold War.
Just look at the world today, war, hunger, strife, misery and crimes against humanity, almost every where.
All because of this phony Cold War.
