Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002
Where are the scare-mongers when we need them?
Thomas M. Miovas, Jr.
In a private reply to one of my submissions to this thread,
Harry Binswanger said:
> My point was that I want to see a show where the
> terrorist nuke *goes off* or the germ warfare is set
> loose. That's what we [saw] more than once during
> the cold war, to scare us.
I guess I missed your point. So, what you are saying, in essence, is that
the scare-mongers were out in force during the Mutually Assured Destruction
(MAD) age, when both the USA and the USSR could annihilate each other, and
they used that scenario as a means of scaring us into *not* taking any action.
<HB: Yes, or into simply surrendering ("Better Red than Dead").>
However, now that we are in an age of conflict where the USA is clearly
superior, the scare-mongers are taking a holiday, because doing otherwise
might encourage the USA to take action to demonstrate that superiority,
which is something the scare-mongers from the MAD age *don't* want the USA
to realize or to undertake. In other words, the mentality and the
motivation behind the scare-mongers is to keep the USA in the state of
being a giant with the soul of a pigmy, as Ayn Rand noticed about our
foreign policy.
<HB: Exactly.>
