[WikiEN-l] The Times They are a'Changin'

[Gareth Owen]

"Abe Sokolov" <abesokolov at hotmail.com> writes:

> Ray wrote:
> 
> "In the cold war era when both sides were ponting nuclear missiles at the
> other it was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) :-)"
> 
> Yes, and didn’t it work? 

No it didn't work.  There was no nuclear war, but there were plenty of fair
sizable non-nuclear wars -- the US in Vietnam and the Russians in Afghanistan
spring to mind -- and the number of civilian casualties (sorry, "collateral
damage") runs into millions.

-- 
Gareth Owen
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