No Comparison

A number of people have commented and it makes a lot of sense to me that the idea that the "war on terror" is analogous to the cold war is just silly. I'm pretty sure in the future it will be looked back on like the over-reaction associated with the Palmer Raids. A little more technology, but in the grand scheme of things, not much more than the anarchism of the early 20th century or the red brigades of the 1970's.

Digby has a nice summary of the argument using a long quote from Paul Kennedy (I'm not sure if I've got the way to link to digby correct here -- it was 2/18/07 4:15pm).