The Cold War is over, there is no such threat today, and there never has been before it, the stand off between the free world and the communists, was unique.
Moral, economic, and political pressure is how Reagan, Walesa, and Pope John Paul II accomplished the destruction of the Eastern Bloc.
The world now faces a virulent and savage ideology that subjugates the people of many countries and is aggressively expanding into others by brutality and by clever insinuations. They too must must be destroyed militarily, politically, and ideologically - just as communism was. That threat calls itself “islam”, an ideology and system of government that has since its inception been at war with all other peoples and nations. It is not only the danger they pose to the world that necessitates their destruction, but the brutality and oppression the exert on their own people.
The threat is even larger now. Were you an adult during the Reagan years?