[Spruce]

The real question is "Why are the Russians still messing with us?"

[Wiz]

The real question is "Why are the Russians and Chinese still messing with us?"

[Just mythoughts]

Some pieces of real estate are breding grounds for perpetual victims.....

[Izzy Dunne]

Why are we trying to reheat the Cold War?

The real question is: "Why is it that whenever things change, it is 'WE' who is responsible?"

[Wonder Warthog]

"So what possible explanation is there for the fact that today — at a moment when both the U.S. and Russia face the common enemy of Islamist terrorism — hard-liners within the Bush administration, and especially in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, are arguing for a new tough line against Moscow along the lines of a scaled-down Cold War?"

Since Russia appears to have helped Saddam move his WMD's to Syria, and is aiding and abetting Iran, it ain't the US that is "heating things up".

[CowboyJay]

"But that struggle ended in 1989 with a Western victory that was not only complete but miraculously peaceful"

The war against militant leftists, and oppressive statist regimes will never end. Wherever true liberty and freedom exist, they will always be under attack from within and without. In a great many ways, our country has lost ground against these destructive forces since the 'Cold' war was officially declared over.

Peace and freedom are neither synonymous nor mutually inclusive.

[jordan8]

So what possible explanation is there for the fact that today — at a moment when both the U.S. and Russia face the common enemy of Islamist terrorism — hard-liners within the Bush administration, and especially in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, are arguing for a new tough line against Moscow along the lines of a scaled-down Cold War?

Because they know they can't compete in domestic politics and social policy and long for a foreign crusade so they won't have to.

[Thunder90]

PING

[WestVirginiaRebel]

She should ask Moscow if the Cold War's over, why are they so upset about their former colonies joining NATO. Or supporting Iran, or cozying up to their Stalinist neighbors in Belarus.