just for the record,
I do sort of like the commies, why?
because without them as an arch-nemesis we would not have the science and technology advances that were the result of the Cold War.
Our government got its head out of its ass and funding the military and science properly after WWII and then for the Cold War.

If not for the Cold War most of our country would still be a bunch of religiously blissfully ignorant rednecks. It was the threat of the USSR that led to taxpayer-funded military developments which later led to private-sector technologies, such as PCs and GPS. In order to achieve and keep technological superiority the US spent much money on EDUCATION and SCIENCE.

We could go so far as to say that the Cold War averted WWIII, the Marshall plan (a counter against Communist expansion) rebuilt a Democratic Germany after WWII, rather than a punished and vengeful Germany like after WWI.

What I see now is that without a major nemesis (face it Osama and company are a marginal threat with hardly any technology and no technical expertise) our government (mainly Republicans) are content with giving the rich tax cuts and cutting education and programs such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) which gives grants for scientific and technological research. Unless we see another big bad foe (Red China maybe) we will regress from the number one spot in technology.