[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 74 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        THE COLD WAR IS OVER, BUT DANGEROUS ENEMIES STILL EXIST

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the Cold War is over. These words we have 
heard repeated thousands of times since the end of Communist tyranny in 
Berlin in 1989, especially by leftists whose eagerness to gut our 
military forces was similarly obvious, even at the height of the Cold 
War.
  But though the Cold War is temporarily over, all of human history 
argues that it would be foolish to let our defenses down. Dangerous 
enemies still exist. They do not care what treaties we sign, how much 
good will Americans have, and they do not care how prosperous we 
become.
  They wish to do us harm because they resent our wealth, reject our 
democratic values, despise our religious traditions, and cannot 
maintain their tyrannies at home knowing that freedom exists in a 
bastion we call America. The very existence of our Nation threatens 
their existence.
  This chart dramatically shows what happens when a Nation ignores the 
lessons of history. We do so at our peril.

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