Re: The New Cold War Paradigm
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In the past, some asserted a monolithic international communism.
In the present, some assert a monolithic Islamic ideology.
Both are incorrect assertions.
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Agreed.
A key problem with US foreign policy was that it often viewed, or at least treated, essentially nationalist (in the sense of wanting to minimise all forms of foreign inteference in the running of their countries) movements and regimes with communist ones. In doing so it frequently undermined largely peace-oriented and democratic governments and saw them replaced with brutal right-wing dictatorships or bloody wars, civil or otherwise. Ironically its behaviour over and over again drove such regimes into the hands of the Soviets, whom they wound up as seeing as the lesser of two evils but if left alone would have had little interest in.
The same sort of thing seems to be in danger of being repeated now.
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