>Much worse. There was something self-parodying about the
>thinking-the-unthinkable school; in retrospect, Herman Kahn seems
>more a performance artist than a theoretician -- comic relief
>compared to those two Council on Foreign Relations policy bots you
>interviewed the other day. While the US was very willing to use
>force in the past, it was just a bit embarrassed about it -- e.g.,
>steadily frittering its power away in endless failed escalations in
>Vietnam. But there's no gap between thought and action for today's
>grim apostles of neoimperialism, no reluctance to wield whatever's
>available in the nation's arsenal. Don Rumseld's New Model Army is
>ready for use anyplace anytime in any degree, on any whim at all.
But the U.S. killed millions during the Cold War. Two, three million Indochinese. How many Latin Americans, via death squads and disappearances? As awful as the post Cold War adventures have been, the death toll is nothing like it. You're making the Golden Age seem a bit too golden.
Doug