My first thought was ‘What is the ‘ever’ doing in the headline?’. Makes the writer sound like a five year old. “EVER!”

Daniel

More complicated, maybe? But more dangerous? I felt a great weight being lifted at the end of the cold war, and nothing, I mean nothing, has bought it back.

Thinking about Carter and that time:

1978 – 79

Israel-Egypt peace,
Iranian revolution,
the invasion of Afghanistan.

It has often been said that the 20th centruy was a short century: running from WW1 to the fall of the soviet Union in 1991.

Maybe the 21st Centruy started in 1979. And, looking at that short list, maybe things were just as complicated then too!