Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...
Tom ClancyThe human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
Tom ClancyAbout forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.
Tom Clancy