Every morning I go out, pick up the newspaper, then sit down and read it. One day last week almost cured me of the habit. When I opened the paper, Iran was enriching more uranium to build bombs, Korea had tested a bomb and the Prime Minister of Iraq, who’s a Shiite Muslim, had attacked our Marines for a raid into Sadr City (to capture the head of a Shiite death squad). We’ve had seventeen good years since ‘The Cold War’ ended, but, now, I’m beginning to get the idea the peace dividend is about over.

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