True, we're in a more peaceful, normal place of permanent war in the "frontiers" - but the quote listed thousands - not millions. I'm not sure I see how the so

True, we're in a more peaceful, normal place of permanent war in the "frontiers" - but the quote listed thousands - not millions. I'm not sure I see how the soviet collapse and subsequent change of aggressors back to british/us in Afghanistan signified the end of the continuous confrontation between powers - rather than yet another shift. I'll not go into what harvest one reaps from planting bombs and troops abroad, but at least in Europe we're hardly unaffected. And while there was ideological propaganda and real differences then - there's religious fundamelism and fascism to go around still... I'll definitely grant you that we're in a state of low intensity conflict over remote resources - and outsource much suffering - a state that seems stable for now.