actually, that is how the US won the cold war. The United States out spent the USSR. The USSR broke apart because the government could no longer control the flow of information reaching the people because of the raise of the internet.

The USA LOST the cold war, simply because it needed a constant large enemy to justify it's bloated military-industrial budget. With the collapse of the USSR, due in large part to the USSR's military budget and Gorbachev's free market policies, the USA was left looking for a way to justify around 50% of all government income being spent on the Military in one way or the other. It finally found it with "the war on terrorism", but it will completely collapse trying to fight that so-called war simply because it's fighting a tactic, not one large obvious enemy. The dollar is collapsing, the manufacturing base is all but gone, and personal and governmental debt has sunk the nation into a cess pool it can not get out of. It's over...it's matter of when, at this point, not if the US will fall.

And yes, the Internet in 1991? Learn your history.

okay, apparently none of you have any education past your ged.

The USA doesn't spend 50% of it's budget on the military. But hey, whatever you want to believe.

And yes, the internet in 1991. Apparently you haven't heard of IRC, gophernet, etc. The backbone of the internet has existed since the 1960s.

http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
48% past and present military spending. Deal with it. It's what is killing us.

Only a few kids had the Internet in my high school in the early-mid 90s. Do you really think that the Soviet Bloc had access to it? Come on...you should know better. They did not. The Internet did not kill the USSR, but it's helping to kill the American empire.

Learn your history.