I would have to actually agree with Mr. Solana. We in America have been relatively free from battles in our own states since the Civil War. We have not known the total out and out destruction of cities that mainland Europe and Britian knew during WWII. I think that is most likely what Mr. Solana was referring to. Unfortunately, just about all of Europes foreign policy looks at everything through the prism of WWI and WWII where military buildup was part of the casus belli.
Yep...I had the same reaction. We’ve had nothing since the Civil War that could compare with what went on in Europe in that time period. Cohen was straining hard to pump up his thesis about wars in North America.