The Cold War was something of a special case. Obviously from where we are now it looks clear that Islamic fundamentalism is the more dangerous ideology to our way of life than Soviet communism, but I think before 1979 it was reasonable to be less clear about that. Ditto selling weapons to unpleasant regimes - if we didn't do it there was a large and hostile power bloc more than happy to take them on.
My first aim would be to reduce arms and armies in every country and think more about multinational forces if needed.
Right, so what you'd like to do is an impossible thing that won't happen, which is fair enough, you're entitled to want that, but the choice which is actually open to us is between doing or not doing those things which we can in fact do.
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My first aim would be to reduce arms and armies in every country and think more about multinational forces if needed.
Right, so what you'd like to do is an impossible thing that won't happen, which is fair enough, you're entitled to want that, but the choice which is actually open to us is between doing or not doing those things which we can in fact do.