[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
It's like we crawled out of the Cold War to go back in hot.
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I wonder how much of that has to do with the number of politicians and political strategists active now who came into their own during the cold war. Peace, that's difficult to build tactics around, but fear? That is easy. Once 9/11 happened, they had a base to work around.