Better to let it deflate in relative terms rather than absolute, to let it play itself out.
Sometimes it seems like US foreign policy is based on asking, "what actions can we take that only make sense in the context of a Cold War?"
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The lesson we would ideally learn: de-escalation is harder than escalation. Escalate with care.
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The War on Terror is the Military-Industrial Complex's somewhat hollow surrogate for the glory days of the Threat of Global Communism.
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It's not actually a conspiracy. A big part of it is that rapidly giving up World Police status would cause acute harm to US economic clout.
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