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The China Report: In the US Congress, "China Week" Is Not a Good Thing.
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Now the "100 Years In Iraq" Makes Sense...
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It's funny how you find answers to one question by looking for something completely different elsewhere. I was checking out an article on askmen.com entitled, " 5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War " and the first "thing" hit me like a ton of bricks: 1- It cost the U.S. about $8 trillion Eminent foreign relations historian Walter LaFeber has put the U.S. military expenditures bill for the Cold War at around $8 trillion. This is a reasonable figure when you take into consideration wars in Korea and Vietnam; intervention in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Grenada, and elsewhere; psychological warfare through covert CIA operations such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Radio Free Europe; and, of course, the research, development, testing, and construction of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons (at a high point in the late 1960s, both the U.S. and the USSR were each spending $50 million a day on those weapons ). By way of c...