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Originally posted by Spanky
We had the bomb and they did not. It would have been a very short war.
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But not the political capital to use it against our gallant Russian allies, led by good old jovial Uncle Joe. Russia was a valued ally and friend.
The people of the US had just had four plus years of wartime propaganda shoved down our throats. Watch some old movies or look at some Time or Life magazines from the war years some time. It wasn't like we were stuck in "1984," were we could switch from hating Eurasia to Eastasia on a moment's notice.
Hindsight is 20-20.
