More of a ... Nuisance? 

More of a ... Nuisance?

Glenn Reynolds, after quoting from Jim Dunnigan:

[blockquote]The end of Soviet support was a major blow to terrorism, which was nowhere near as much an authentic and spontaneous phenomenon as many have believed, or pretended. I hope that this [today's terrorism, with Al Qaeda very much weakened] will play out the same way. [/blockquote]

So: there's a strong possibility the U.S. isn't actually engaged in World War III, or something closely analogous to the Cold War itself (perhaps not even to the smaller war against terrorism that was waged in the shadow of the Cold War)?

Not a combination of World War II, the U.S. Civil War, Star Wars, the Lord of the Rings, and the race to Mars?