Reason and logic, at war with terror

The Washington Times ^ | 10/21/02 | Suzanne Fields

[browardchad]

Suddenly, Washington is awash in nostalgia for the safety and security of the Cold War. Mutual assured destruction, MAD as it was and for all of the terror it inspired in the imagination, was based on reason and logic.

When Jack Kennedy told Nikita Khrushchev he would not allow Russian missiles in Cuba, and made him believe it, the Russians turned their ships around. The gamble paid off because both sides knew the rules of the game. When Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit that he would never give up the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Soviet leader, with a hard-headed understanding of the economics of an arms race he couldn't win, threw in his cards. We didn't know it at the time but it was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

[sam_paine]

....which is why I wish W would quit calling the terrorists "enemies of America" and label them "advocates of chaos," or something to that effect.

They are enemies of civilization, and narrowing it down to enemies of America gives other nations a way out.