September 17, 2001
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Cold War Two, We Hardly Knew Ye
When the current Presidential administration snubbed the world community by breaking nuclear non-proliferation treaties, some, myself included, noted that Cold War Two had begun.
We also noted that during World War One (the alleged ‘War To End All Wars’), no one thought that the war they were fighting would be referred to as the first of two. Likewise, during the first Cold War, no one thought there’d be a second.
The first Cold War lasted from shortly after World War Two (the sequel), until about the time East Germany tore down the Berlin Wall, a considerable length of time. And now that Cold War Two is over, we can say that at this point it’ll never be older than the current Presidential administration.
In a way, it would have been nice if Cold War Two could have gone on longer, but we were working on borrowed time as it was.
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I won’t miss the cold war.
Most dreadful moment was when Reagan “joked”: “We begin bombing in five minutes” and sent the Soviet Airforce scrambling. Living in a first strike city, I didn’t find that too funny.
I’m thinking this president is trying to define his presidency with a war. It seems that he would rather commit troops, than not.
Too often, war is declared by men who are too old to fight, unfortunately the absence or risk is distorting their perspective.
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