Steve's barking, the US lost out because of the end of the Cold War

We in the US have this mistaken belief that the end of the Cold War was an important economic and social win for the United States. I Ofcause beg to differ. With the collaps of the Soviet Union we lost one of our greatest competitors. When one has no comtition one tends to get fat and lazy with innovation few and poor just like Microsoft when it destroyed it competitions programs.
With the Cold War America was more socially just, we just had to prove that our way is better then our competion, now our politicians just don't give a --- .
During the Cold War you would hear of the great deficit, but reasonable people just ignored it. Now reasonable people make like it's the most frightening thing since the atomic bomb. Every time they hear the words public deficit they want to duck under their desks' and cover thier heads never mind the other terrible bombs out there, pension and social security. Oh I almost forgot the aging of America and the Medicare bomb.

Now I ask you my friends and enemies if the Soviets hadn't left Afganistan would we have been attacked by Islamist extremists on Sept 11th 2001? I don't think so.
It maybe true that America may have won the Cold War but lost the peace.