Jay Honeck wrote:
Another generation of American men and women who paid billions of
their tax dollars to rebuild Europe after World War II, and then
sacrificed their blood and treasure to fight the Cold War for
another generation, must surely be thinking the same thing -- why
did we bother?

How much blood was lost in the Cold War?

Tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in the "Cold War"
agains the Soviet Union. Battlegrounds where the "Cold" war became
"hot" include Korea, Viet Nam, and a dozen other less-prominent
conflicts from 1946 to 1990.

Our perception of "history" is probably flawed, since we're too close
to the events. uture historians may well record World War I & II as
a single world war (with a short, 20 year pause to re-arm), and the
following "wars" of the 20th century as skirmishes in the overall
"Cold War".

Not mention a large percentage of the 83 names on the CIA Memorial Wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C...orial-wall.jpg