Mr. GATES: As an old cold warrior, one of yesterday's speeches almost filled me with nostalgia for a less complex time.

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Many Democrats continue to pretend that Jack Kennedy was a paragon of family values and Harvard-Yard liberalism rather than a womanising cold warrior.

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Like Nixon in 1952, Agnew served as the attack dog and allowed Nixon, who had remade himself from an avid Cold Warrior into a foreign policy expert, to maintain his new image.

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Mr Podhoretz parted ideological company with them as he gradually metamorphosed from a left-winger into a cold-war warrior and Reaganite fellow-traveller, and he cannot now forgive them for failing to follow where he led.

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Perhaps it should serve as a healthy cold shower for any modern civilisational warrior who sets out to present the course of history as a simple tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam.

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