And they kept watch over a ratline that shepherded young Muslim men from the West to the front lines of the Afghan proxy war, using them as cannon fodder for a cold-blooded, imperial operation marketed by the Wahhabi clergy in Saudi Arabia as a holy obligation. . ..…

Burns calls it America’s “original sin” of the post-Cold War order, “born of hubris, as well as failures of imagination and process.” Burns commends President George W. Bush’s personal sincerity, but he describes him as “reckless” in his commitment to overthrow..…

Once it became clear that there would be no transformational politics at the end of Cold War and that the logic of enlargement would prevail, Russia was faced with the choice of either adapting to the Historical West and Europe as subaltern, ing its power and identity. ..…

That very ambivalence is the point: West Germany was not de facto a better place for gay men and lesbians in the Cold War era. . ..…

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