For Andy Fox and Chris Alger

I can't continue the threads below tonight as I must go out soon. I think we are having some valuable discussions. I may have isolated one of the primary causes for our different views on certain issues. Put simply, I believe I view the threats posed by the Soviet Union as being far worse than you do, and I am therefore willing to make greater allowances. Of course a lot of US policy in Latin America was probably wrong. Of course Nixon was a crook. I know you guys also know the former USSR was bad, but I view the former USSR as being truly terrible--on a par with the Nazis--and I believe that a world taken over by the USSR could have possibly been as terrible as a world taken over by the Nazis (different of course, but possibly just as terrible, although in somewhat different ways). So we may never agree on some of these issues, in part due to our different assessments of the designs and horrors of Soviet-style totalitarianism.