[Mb-civic] Bush Is Serving Up the Cold War Warmed Over

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Bush Is Serving Up the Cold War Warmed Over 
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Robert Scheer

July 5 2005

The "war on terror" is turning out to be nothing more than a recycled formulation of the dangerously dumb "domino theory." Listen to the way President Bush justifies the deepening quagmire of Iraq: "Defeat them abroad before they attack us at home." If we didn't defeat communism in Vietnam, or even tiny Grenada, went the hoary defense of bloody proxy wars and covert brutality in the latter stages of the Cold War, San Diego might be the next to go Red. 

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