Fruits of the Cold War: debt and pollution.(Column)

USA Today (Magazine) | March 1, 1995| | Copyright

REMEMBER THE COLD WAR? The U.S., it is said, won that war, one that is not understood fully or appreciated by many--including politicians who have hitched themselves to victory's bandwagon.

One of the problems in understanding it is that observers and analysts have fallen too easily into using the analogy of a hot war. Just as the Vietnam conflict for years mistakenly was portrayed as being won or lost based on body counts, the Cold War was regarded the same way. In the latter case, the bodies were live ones. More bodies meant more deterrence, though tanks and ships and ...

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