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— Jeff Sharlet"What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that."
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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
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The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.
— Graham T. Allison
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