Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.
The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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