It was a dark time in America, with honest law abiding citizens being black-listed for supposed communist beliefs and people applying the same Us versus them duality that the OP and main stream media attempt to apply to Us versus the Terrorists. Communism failed because human nature doesn't allow for the true Marxist communism to ever form. The only form of modern government in existence is oligarchy.
Or you can go on believe that setting foot on the lunar surface actually helped us "win" the supposed "Cold War". Had the Russians set foot on the moon nothing would have changed, there was no possible gain other than some minor scientific facts that landing on the moon gave us (and maybe a few technologial perks like Velcro
) ... As for the arms race it may have helped slowly raise the tensions of the Cold War but it certainly didn't help end the Cold War, if anything the creation of more and more nukes only increased the chance for the entire world to be destroyed, communism, democracy and all shallow illusions of human power included...
[edit on 31-7-2009 by Titen-Sxull]



