In the aftermath of World War II, Americans looked across the world and saw a bitter irony. After we fought a necessary — indeed, unavoidable — war to crush the evil and expansionist regimes in Tokyo and Berlin, a new evil and expansionist regime began filling the vacuum created by their destruction.
The Soviet octopus spread its tentacles, and its grip was not broken for four decades.
A similar — perhaps even bitterer — irony now threatens to unfold in t ...
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