Even if you compare the time the Americans put into collecting information on Russia during the Cold War, it is not comparable to what they are doing now with Iran.

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It is just very cold and makes you wonder what we are becoming in some areas.

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The political universe is, of course, very different today from what it was during the Cold War.

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