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Related: About this forumTop Republicans Call for Return to Cold War
Top lawmakers on the House and Senate Armed Services said Thursday that the world would be better off if the Cold War was still onand if Obama wasnt cutting the defense budget.The current crisis in the Ukraine and the looming crisis on the Korean Peninsula would be much easier to manage if the Cold War was still going strong, according to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon and Senate Armed Services Ranking Republican James Inhofe.
I look back wistfully at the Cold War, Inhofe said Thursday at a breakfast meeting with reporters. There were two superpowers, they knew what we had, we knew what they had, mutually assured destruction meant something. It doesnt mean anything anymore. Now we have these people who are not rational, not logical, theyre nuts.
The Obama administrations foreign policy is no longer based on predictable calculations of actions and reactions by rational actors, he said. Now the administration is depending on the promises of actors from enemy countries to maintain world stability, which is dangerous, according to Inhhofe.
In this administration, we trust all these people, he said, referring to the leaders in Russia, China, and North Korea. Its a real scary situation and we kid ourselves when we think we can trust them.
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Top Republicans Call for Return to Cold War (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2014
OP
Mass
(27,315 posts)1. Do they imply Reagan did not win it?d
Amazing to see these big Reagan supporters reject what most see as his most important accomplishment.
Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)2. If they don't have a clear villain, they are lost...
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,422 posts)3. Well, they do have a common villain
Problem is that it's the current President of the United States- and he can't do anything right- to them
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)4. GOP to anybody who'll listen: "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran ..."
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)5. You know
Make a few edits, change the country names to tea party, and it reads pretty much the same.