The Left Finally Admits the Soviets Were a Threat.

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Throughout the Cold War, the American Left insisted that the Soviet Union was no threat to the United States. They said that it was US aggression, not that of the Soviets that perpetuated the Cold War. Jimmy Carter negotiated the SALT treaties, allowing the Soviet Union to have more nuclear weapons that we would have, reasoning that they were no threat to us anyway. When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union "the Evil Empire", the left gasped in horror. They thought that such bear baiting would heat up the cold war. Obama: "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, `We're going to wipe you off the planet." So, lefties of the Cold War era, was the Soviet Union a threat, or wasn't it?