50 years later will we look back at the war on terrorism and laugh?

[stormbind]

50 years later, young history students will look back and think "what a bunch of blithering idiots"

 

[thestonesfan]

If they make a funny movie about it, we might laugh. Like Space Balls makes the Star Wars seem funny, but at the time, they were the last thing you would joke about!

 

[Jawz II]

Jawz, there would not Be an America today if we had lost the Cold War. Or a Europe, or an Asia, probably not a South America or Africa either. Australia.. maybe, but doubtful. The Cold war was not about the USA vs the USSR. It was about whether or not either Democracy or Stalinism would finally triumph without a nuclear war. And when it did finally end, the entire world won.

no, i seriously doubt the russians wouldve taken over the world,they were still just one nation, even if a big one

they have fought wars with their neighbours, lost some and won some through history, and not one time have they conquered the whole word

what you are playing up is paranoid american anti communism, they wouldnt even have taken over eastern europe if it wasnt for hitler and his buncha paranoid anti communist henchmen(lets mess them up before they do it to us)

basicly the same mentality that started ww2, also started the cold war

 

[Stapel]

no, i seriously doubt the russians wouldve taken over the world,they were still just one nation, even if a big one

they have fought wars with their neighbours, lost some and won some through history, and not one time have they conquered the whole word

what you are playing up is paranoid american anti communism, they wouldnt even have taken over eastern europe if it wasnt for hitler and his buncha paranoid anti communist henchmen(lets mess them up before they do it to us)

basicly the same mentality that started ww2, also started the cold war

Well, you do realise what happened in Hungary?
Ever heared of "Prague Spring" ?

 

[Elgalad]

Tell the stalinists.

You missed the point of my post. The entire world won Because the long dreaded nuclear interchange never occurred. As I said, the Cold War may have appeared ideological, but it was really about the survival of civilization or its destruction in a nuclear holocaust.

@Jawz II, The Soviet Union knew, just as the United States and NATO that if a 'conventional war' ever began in Europe, it would quickly become nuclear, and there are No winners in a nuclear war, period.




-Elgalad

 

[Mapache]

If they make a funny movie about it, we might laugh. Like Space Balls makes the Star Wars seem funny, but at the time, they were the last thing you would joke about!

Star Wars was certainly the most serious issue of the last 50 years.

Do we laugh about the Nazis today?

 

[Jawz II]

sure i do.. why?

do you have any idea what happened in chekoslovakia?

the winter uprising?

or whats hapopening in iraq right now?

american military now is more powerful than the soviets ever was
still they have huge problems when they have to keep order in afghanistan AND iraq, stretched too thin

so dont give me that stuff about how the soviet was gonna take over the whole world
they got their asses kicked in alittle place called afghanistan, i know afghanis got small arms and stingers from us, but iraqis arent reciving anything from anyone now, and theyre giving us military major headache

the afghans wouldve too

people of everywhere will defend their homelands, they will fight, and they will fight hard

i dont remember who said it, it was some king or general from the middle ages who said a soldier fighting to defend his home is worth 3 regular soldiers

i agree

EDIT:heres a good video on the subject
http://www.bushflash.com/blues.html

 

[The Last Conformist]

You missed the point of my post. The entire world won Because the long dreaded nuclear interchange never occurred. As I said, the Cold War may have appeared ideological, but it was really about the survival of civilization or its destruction in a nuclear holocaust.

That's mixing two uses of "about". The reason for the enmity was certainly ideological/political, and clearly one side lost. The situation also entailed a threat of civilizational collapse by nuclear war; I'm sure just about nobody deplores the fact that a such is now less likely. That, however, doesn't mean that everybody thinks it was worth the cost - it's not too hard to find people who wish the Wall never fell. The head of the Swedish section of Attaque* expressed, a couple of years ago, her wish that the Soviet Union was still around to contain US "aggression".

* Her given name, ironically enough, is "America".

 

[Jawz II]

i think, all the cold war did was to bring the human kind closer to nuclear war and not further away,because of american and russian intrests in world domination

had the hotheads in america or russia gotten their way it wouldve happened

i dont see what the world gained from that, or how thats a good thing

i know i know, it was all their fault (if youre russian its americas fault and the other way around)

whatever

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I don't have to wait 50 years to find the whole thing ridiculous.

 

[Double Barrel]

some things could be considered funny....

 

[Jawz II]

yes it was

and its not like im saying its a bad thing the nuclear tention is gone, or that the communist were really great people

but i do belive the average russian had it better during the cold war until their economy went belly up, compared to now

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Do you think that 50 years later people will laugh at how we react towards terrorism?

I already do. But somehow it's just not funny any more.