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To: Ilaine who wrote (24488)	7/19/2006 2:35:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541345

and waged proxy wars in Africa, Central America, South America, and Asia. Yes quite a number of wars, not one large war. And yes there was a connection between but it wasn't a multidecade period of constant open and/or declared war. The "war on terror" is much more of a declared war. The US has authorizations to use force, and Al Qaeda and allied Islamofacist terrorists groups have attacked us directly and declared Jihad against us. If your right and the cold war was really one long real war, than that doesn't mean that its unreasonable to hold captured enemies in this war for the duration, it would rather mean that it would have been acceptable to hold captured Soviet combatants for the duration of the cold war. I don't think it would have been reasonable or acceptable to do so, because the cold war itself wasn't a war. It was a period of tension with multiple wars but not one long war.