It has freed us from the perpetual danger of war and dissolution.

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In a world less driven by an immediate threat to Europe and the danger of global war, in a world where the size of our forces will increasingly be shaped by the needs of regional contingencies and peacetime presence, we know that our forces can be smaller.

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Iran, which lost 300, 000 men in its war with Iraq, is alive to the danger of being sucked into a regional war.

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And in times of war and danger, as we're now in, Americans should put leadership at the core of their decision.

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Understandably, with the end of the Cold War the sense of omni-Present Danger receded.

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It is already apparent that the end of the Cold War was neither the end of history nor the end of danger.

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And the greatest danger here of course is that unlike the Cold War, unlike World War II, this is not a war that has a clean ending, so you cannot set a point at which we would demobilize and therefore get rid of some of this apparatus.

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Early in the Cold War, Einstein warned of the danger of our wisdom not keeping pace with our technology.

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But we admire these young men who joined the military in a time of war, when there is definitely a danger.

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But I do believe there are times in history when our ideas are more necessary and more important and critical, and this is one of those times when we are facing war and danger.

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It is only natural that many people, sooner than face the certainty of war now, prefer to shut their eyes to future danger.

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Color, too, is used effectively, with text panels in red, for instance, denoting high danger and those in black symbolizing the cutoff of avenues of escape once World War II began.

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America and Russia have pulled back from the brink, but India and Pakistan have increased the danger and the more nations that have nuclear weapons the greater the probability of war between them.

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And the danger in any of these regional disputes is that the US and Russia get sucked in and what began as a war between two neighbours goes global.

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