Campaign Spending Truce? - NYTimes.com Re "Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors" (front page, Nov. 8), about the $6 billion spent during the election campaign - without moving the political needle much: There is a lesson to be learned from the cold war. The United States and Soviet Union spent prodigiously, escalating our respective nuclear arsenals, until rationality told each of us that all we did was offset one another, and risk mutual destruction. At that point each side began to stand down. Perhaps all the political action committees, super PACs and the rest on either side will consider standing down. Rationality should tell them that all they did was offset one another, to no avail.