The New Cold War Paradigm

[andyfox]

A few weeks ago, I posted about "The New Cold War"; I should have said "The New Cold War Paradigm."

Here's an excerpt from the famous NSC68, written in 1950, which laid out the rationale for United States strategy during much of the Cold War:

"The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its absolute authority over the rest of the world. The fundamental design of those who control the Soviet Union and the international communist movement requires the dynamic extension of their authority and the ultimate elimination of any effective opposition to their authority. The design, therefore, calls for the complete subversion for forcible destruction of the machinery of government and structure of society in the countries of the non-Soviet world and their replacement by an apparatus and structure subservient to and controlled form the Kremlin. The Kremlin is inescapably militant."

And here, an excerept from an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal last week:

"There is a radical difference between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other governments with nuclear weapons. This difference is expressed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic worldview of Iran’s present rulers. School textbooks tell young Iranians to be ready for a final global struggle against an evil enemy, named as the U.S., and to prepare themselves for the privileges of martyrdom."


I see a marked similarity in the language and outlook of both excerpts. Anyone else?