Comment Re:Reminiscent of the Cold War (Score 3, Insightful) 101
And when the USSR collapsed, we learned that the entire time they had been at least two steps behind us.
Would you have had it any other way? If we had not maintained our paranoia of the Russians one-upping us, would we have maintained our edge? I'll let history stand as the best outcome of the cold war without trying to second guess what would have happened if we had not taken the position we did. The illusion of a perpetual stalemate is certainly preferable to the alternatives.