Many of the same crowd who said, “Better red than dead” back in the 1960s and 70s, and who worried about Ronald Reagan the warmongering cowboy, now think Vladimir Putin and Russia pose an existential threat to the US. From Jack Perry at lewrockwell.com:
“Gas, gas, gas!” Fumble for your mask. “Not fast enough, idiots! You’re all dead! We can do this all day, people!” Anyone who served in the U.S. military during the great fun-for-the-whole-family of the Cold War will surely remember NBC training. See, “NBC” stands for Nuclear Biological Chemical warfare which is what this was called until the government gussied those weapons up as “weapons of mass destruction. Thus, by swapping the initials of NBC for WMD, it sounded nicer. Who could forget the heartwarming military NBC training films that included the cheerful footage of test shots at the Nevada Test Site? Who could forget the charming “pigs in a blanket” scene where the army tried out a tinfoil “nuclear protective suit” on tethered pigs during a nuclear weapons test? And why? Because the Soviets were surely going to use NBC weapons against us during the war we knew was coming. That’s what we were told.
Why this trip down memory lane? Because to hear the liberals today talking, you’d swear these chuckleheads were there with us, scrambling into MOPP4 (chemical weapons protective masks and suits), and training to fight off the automaton-like Soviet hordes. I hear people foaming at the mouth about “the Russians” right now that I know darn well had those mouths wrapped around bongs back in the era they could have lent a hand and frickin’ enlisted. Right, and what did those people think of we who did put our lives where our mouths were and served? We were suckers, of course. Couldn’t afford college, or too dumb to go. “Had no other choices”, was another familiar refrain. Or, “couldn’t do anything better…” This was the era before supporting the troops became a fad and sold lots of bumper stickers.
To continue reading: Onward Liberal War-Mongers, Marching on to Hypocrisy!
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Government is the problem. Ronald Reagan
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So, no, I do not care what the Russians do in Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, the Baltics, Syria, or Democratic Party computers. You want to “stand up to the Russians”? Then gear up and go over to Ukraine and leave the rest of us out of it. I’m old and tired of the “enemy-of-the-month club” and am canceling my subscription. You people were not worth the time I spent serving. My wings and awards are in a junk box and will probably be thrown away when I get around to it. All you liberals are the SAME war-lovers as the conservatives. All that differs is the motive for hating the Russians. That’s the only “change we can believe in”: The motives for the war mongering.
There. I said it. Sign me off as one who’s tired of Green Party and Democrat tough guys who WERE NOT THERE when the Cold War was being waged. These were passive spectators. And that’s all they are now. But too stupid to realize that nuclear weapons don’t distinguish between political affiliation. Democrats and Green Party members throw threats because of politics, but everyone shall surely die in earnest.