What the question is trying to get at is the simplicity of a world where answers were black and white: communist, or capitialist. The Soviet Union was the enemy, you knew where they were, mostly what they were up to, and if it came to conflict, wars were fought by armies in uniform, and easliy identified.
Now, we don't really KNOW who our enemies are, when they fight, they do it in civillian clothes, and all things are shades of grey. And we don't really know who we're fighing, why they're fighing at all, or how to fix it.
I agree that socially, we've come a long way. And I'm pleased that we freed eastern Europe from the tyranny of communism, but there is a small part of me that longs for the simplicity of international relations that we had in the Cold War.
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Date: 2008-10-03 02:29 pm (UTC)Now, we don't really KNOW who our enemies are, when they fight, they do it in civillian clothes, and all things are shades of grey. And we don't really know who we're fighing, why they're fighing at all, or how to fix it.
I agree that socially, we've come a long way. And I'm pleased that we freed eastern Europe from the tyranny of communism, but there is a small part of me that longs for the simplicity of international relations that we had in the Cold War.