I didn't catch this at the time, but apparently the Congress recently held a unanimous vote to institute a Cold War Victory Medal. There's just one small problem though ... the U.S. did not win the Cold War! Unless of course you buy into the Reaganites argument that they "strategically" kept amassing nukes magically "forcing" the USSR to keep up and eventually cause an economic crash. But even if your puny reptile brain can somehow buy this crap, it's still the Soviet's own twisted idiocy that lead to their crash, not some brilliant strategy on Reagan's part.

The fact is that the USSR was trying to enforce a radical economic uniformity on a population that was never involved in the decision-making and, big surprise, it rotted from within. Saying the U.S. was somehow victorious is like saying that I beat Rocky Marciano in boxing because he died before we ever got to fight. But none of that matters, because I think this is less to do with historical accuarcy than it does with a concerted effort to paint socialism as the worst evil since parking meters.