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MaggieL · 02-10-2002, 11:39 PM

Stating it in 1996 dollar *is* adjusting it for inflation. Bear in mind there was not much doubt anywhere that WWII was a battle for *survival* against the Axis Powers. Anything since then has been a brushfire by comparison. That's why the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan (the Soviet one) fell under the rubric of "The Cold War".--with The Soviet Blok and NATO staring each other down across Western Europe with enough nukes on standby to destroy the planet many times over, it kinda made folks too nervous to actually have flat-out no-holds-barred war like that again.

02-10-2002, 11:39 PM	#4
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Stating it in 1996 dollar is adjusting it for inflation. Bear in mind there was not much doubt anywhere that WWII was a battle for survival against the Axis Powers. Anything since then has been a brushfire by comparison. That's why the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan (the Soviet one) fell under the rubric of "The Cold War".--with The Soviet Blok and NATO staring each other down across Western Europe with enough nukes on standby to destroy the planet many times over, it kinda made folks too nervous to actually have flat-out no-holds-barred war like that again. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."