On Monday, August 26, 2013 12:42:43 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Monday, August 26, 2013 12:05:11 PM UTC-4, DhiaDuit wrote:
On Sunday, August 25, 2013 4:22:31 AM UTC-5, D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 8/25/13 03:23 , wrote:
This is why SDI was created. To fight missiles with missiles .
SDI was created to drive the Soviets into bankruptcy. SDI didn't
work. Couldn't be made to work. Wasn't supposed to work. It was a
strategy to end the USSR, which was already on the ropes.
If anything actually pushed the evil empire into real bankruptcy- it
was prohibition under Gorbachev... The gov't lost huge part of the
revenue due to very high alcohol prices .This had created a new
industry (underground) and all the money remained in private hands.
Eventually the state planned economy started to collapse . All the
way...
No doubt. But it doesn't change the fact that SDI was a red herring.
It couldn't work, and wasn't supposed to. But it's creation and public
presentation was a strategy to undo the Soviet Union. Whether it was
successful in that may be an issue of some debate, but that was its
purpose.
But, what is that 60 years old car you drive? Is it a Saab car?
Cannot be SAAB. More like a Volvo or a M-B.
Back in the 1960s or 1970s there was a used cars dealership just across Highway 80 from me. One time I stopped there and I looked at a real nice looking three cylinders Saab car they had for sale. I think they were asking $700.00 for that little red Saab car. About a week ago at Youtube I watched a Youtube video of an old Saab car being removed from a barn in Norway. I wants me an old, old Citroen Deau Cheveaux car, just something to play with. I saw a lot of them when I was in Vietnam. I wants,,,, I wants,,, I wants,,,