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Cold War
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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
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― A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
― A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
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Cold War history, from Harry Truman and Robert Oppenheimer to Ronald Reagan the fall of the Berl…more
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