The New Cold War

[andyfox]

Not sure, but probably not well. Talk of how we made errors in judgment during the Cold War will come off as more negativism and criticism of something most American's think we did well. Democrats fell all over themselves, when Reagan died, to say how much they loved the Man Who Won the Cold War. Comumnist Walter Lippman made this exact criticism of containment at the beginning of the Cold War, and was a lone voice in the wildernesss, despite his exalted reputation.

Americans seems to prefer simplicity to anything else. "The terrorists" are now the new "the communists." This doesn't mean that there isn't a real threat. It does mean that we will be prone to design a one-size-fits-all policy.