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Democrats have spent most of this year accusing Bush of being trapped in Cold War thinking.(President George W. Bush)(Brief Article)

National Review

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* Democrats have spent most of this year accusing Bush of being trapped in Cold War thinking. (That is why, they say, he was not alert to the threat of al-Qaeda.) But now Bush is shaking up an outdated, Cold War pattern of military deployments, and the Democrats are objecting. Bush understands that the military's current posture--one originally designed to defend against a massive Soviet armored attack on Germany--no longer makes sense. Democrats say Bush is being dangerously unilateralist. But the planned repositioning has been worked out over the last two and a half years, during extensive consultations with allies. Maintaining heavy armored divisions in Germany indefinitely would be no more than mindless attachment to the status quo. The ...

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