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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I think what happened is that after the fall of the Soviet Union there was a sense that Western philosophy and its way of life would go on forever unchallanged. That 'optimism and idealism' was really only a one generation wonder. In reality it was too much euphoria about the state of the world post-Cold War. September 11th reminded us that once again there were parts of the world that were at odds with each other. For people in my generation we only knew a post Cold-War world where there was no fear of the bomb, no fear of terrorism, and no fear that the world might not really be ours to inherit. We were led to believe that everyone else in the world supported us and was trying to emulate us.
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I don't know if that was true, there was a realization that with the fall of the Soviet Union all of the groups that they funded and the failed states that they controlled would suddenly spiral out of control and we'd end up with a enemy that wasn't right in front of us.
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