Let’s not have a Cold War II? Well, why not? Why not let’s just take another run at the problem, this time with a little more clarity of purpose.
I figure that Cold War I was the consequence of confusion of purpose and values at the end of WWII. We thought, in WWII in Europe, that our enemy was national socialism, and not all flavors of socialism altogether everywhere. That’s because we had too many Russian apologists and socialists of our own in the State Department, in universities, and in newsrooms. Still do. They just don’t call themselves socialists and they probably mostly don’t even know they are socialists.
Our Cold War objective evidently was to tie the game because many of us feared the other side being seen as a loser, despite the fact that socialism is not a sustainable system without coercion.
I figure that we are sixty years smarter, now, and Cold War II might be the right thing to do, tactically and morally.
