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According to an item in the December 31st-January 7th issue of Time, White House aides are preparing for a 50-year war on terrorism. Calling the approach "taking a long view," administration officials are already drawing parallels with the Cold War, a manufactured, hysteria-mongering "rumor of war" that America's ruling elite managed to drag out for nearly half a century. Because of the Cold War mindset, tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in feckless, foreordained defeats like Korea and Vietnam. After all, the goal of Truman and other Cold War presidents was not to defeat but to "contain" -- that is, control -- the Communist enemy, and use the threat of nuclear annihilation to cudgel Americans into accepting a UN-brokered new world order. According to Time, Bush administration officials have begun perusing documents like Truman's NSC-68, one of the ...