Life was more pleasant when the enemy wore fur.

I miss the Cold War.

When the conflict was centered around socio-economic principle and the opponent had the same healthy fear of nukes that we had. Nuclear war was a moot war. A safe war. The Rooskies weren't strapping dynamite to themselves. Which, by the way, is completely rude.

Spy versus spy. We raced to the moon. Life was more pleasant when the enemy wore fur.

Remember when the battle was for world supremacy? Power, global position and political ideology...these were romantic notions that made our conflict with Russia seem noble. The biggest mistake we ever made was walking away from the Cold War. Choosing to use our military machine to fight over finite resources in the desert....that's just asking for trouble. I blame Oliver North.