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To: skinowski who wrote (128385)	4/4/2004 3:26:47 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<the "cold" war was much more similar to our current conflicts than WWII> Agreed. And, I think the similarities are going to increase. It is only a matter of time, before a virulently anti-American nation, run by Militant Islamists, has nuclear weapons, and the missiles to deliver them to your hometown. Then, we will have to abandon our "Forward Defense" (=serial Wars of Aggression) strategy, and adopt Containment and Deterrence. Just as, with the Soviets, our initial response, at the end of WW1, was to send American, French, and British soldiers into Russia, to kill the Revolution. This allowed the Soviets to champion Russian nationalism. Every time we get on the wrong side of nationalism, we lose. After "forward defense" against Communism failed, we adopted tactics that limited the conflict (which meant giving up the goal of total victory): measured responses, limited objectives, defensive postures everywhere we really cared about.