The Missile Defense Decision: Laura's 2nd Response

President Obama has extensive knowledge of Russian history because he is educated, unlike former president Bush. So do I for that matter – what is your level of education in relation to Russian history Chase?

European nations surrender at the first sign of conflict? Tell me that you're friggen kidding Chase, please. How do you believe that the United States were created to begin with? Well I'll tell you: on the backs of the citizens of the states of Europe.

You do not care for crème brulée Chase? It is my absolute favorite. Perhaps now that we have a president in office with diplomatic skills there will be breakfasts in the City of Lights. We can only hope Chase.

The Russians are our allies today, though our partnership with Stalin, the brutal dictator that played a part in the deaths of 28 million people in the former Soviet Union, was indeed suspect. What a coin that was to toss, right? Why is it that the US always partners with these dictators Chase? Trust me; the Russians have less of a deficit than we do in the United States and are more than capable of defending their territory. Ronald Reagan played a miniscule part (that's a pun in reference to his former position) in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Prior to Stalin's death there were many in the State Duma that sought change, but feared speaking about it. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the many, though the Cold War escalated under his watch, of course.

It is known far and wide that Stalin's pet phrase was: "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."

You believe that Georgia is a peaceful state? Georgian troops launched the recent offensive, but of course they were trained and armed by the forever interfering US. You have it backwards there Chase. Of course Russia responded in full force Chase, but what would you have expected them to do?

Now we are fighting the men that have those weapons that we supplied to the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War during 1979 to 1989. We armed them and now they use the arms to fight us. The Soviets did not exactly lose, but chose under Mikhail Gorbachev, to withdraw. Gorbachev played a much bigger part in the dissolutiion of the USSR than you are giving him credit for Chase. You also neglect to mention that Saudi Arabia and half of the states in the Middle East also supported the mujahideen during this ongoing conflict. The US did not arm the Afghans – we armed the resistance, which is quite the opposite.