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...significant changes. Fidel Castro, who turned 75 last summer, may have outlasted nine U.S. presidents and everything from exploding cigars to botched invasions, but he cannot outwit time. Nor can the socialist economy he built largely on Soviet handouts resist the unsentimental forces of globalization that rule the post-Cold War world...
...past three years, the CTC has broken up three planned attacks by the Hizbollah terror group outside the Middle East, all of them targeting locations where Americans could have been killed. The CTC is everything the rest of the intelligence community is not: coordinated, dynamic and designed for the post-cold war threat. As a result, its staff has doubled to 1,000 since Sept. 11, and the Administration has deluged the center with new funding...
...downplay the crimes of left-wing regimes, and Castro’s Cuba, in particular, has long been the darling of the American left. With its record of standing up to “Yanqui imperialism,” its much-touted system of universal health care, and its post-Cold War isolation, Cuba’s nasty and oppressive regime seems sad and bullied and even a little bit cute—the “Tickle-Me-Elmo” of totalitarian states. And let’s not forget the enduring appeal of its cigar-chomping despot...
...world becomes a vastly more dangerous place, some worrisome trends first exposed in the Balkans are being confirmed. Post-cold war defense-spending cuts have left Europe without the military clout to contribute to regional let alone global security. The U.S., on the other hand, just gets stronger. Over the next five years, the largest increase in defense outlays since the Reagan era will see the Pentagon spending more than $2 trillion. Small wonder that Super Power envy - and fear - abounds...
...reminding the world, once again, how we won the cold war--it felt O.K. Sure, it might have been even nicer to let Eruzione light it with Slava Fetisov, the great Soviet captain and current Russian coach whom he beat. That could have made for a nice demonstration of post-cold war togetherness. But why try to kid anybody? If global events after Sept. 11 proved anything, it's that the U.S. is now the only superpower in the game. One thing that means is that everyone else is going to happily accept our invitation to party, even...