Made made Russia our enemy? Russia has been our enemy since at least 1945, against which we have been fighting proxy wars since, from Vietnam and to Ukraine as Russia sought to expand. Liberals used to blame America for such proxy wars and fantasize that if America sat passively by then peace would reign, but now conservative libertarians seem to have taken their place, while they oppose despotic dictator/invader plutonium Putin because he is not a team player in their quest for world dominion, for which they now even see Communism as a threat to. Both are anti-Christ and are to be opposed by true Christians.
"Why would the Taliban help us get Bin Laden when we were already at war with them?"
You are missing the context of the statement, which was in response to the argument that attacking the wannabe world dictators was part of Bush being a war criminal.
I could not disagre more with your assessment of Cold War history.And now you want to make it a religious crusade? Absurd.