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THERE IS NO MILITARY THREAT IN THE POST COLD WAR WORLD

CHRISTOPHER `95 [FOREIGN POLICY, SPRING, PG 6]

"The Soveit empire is gone, and with it our primary security imperative of the
past half century--to contain communist expansion while preventing a nuclear
holocaust.  Today, no great power views any other as an immediate military
threat.  And the triumph of democracy and free markets is transforming
countries form Europe to Latin America, and from Asia to Africa."

The article goes on to say in the following paragraph (although the cutter of
the card did not include on the block):

"But we cannot and must not take these hopeful developments for granted, or
assume that if left untended, they will continue.  Many of the emergent
democracies are facing a difficult and uncharted course.  Rogue states such as
Iraq, Iran, and Libya still threaten their neighbors, important U.S. allies,
and vital American interests.Conflicts within boarders rage on, causing
widespread suffering and often undermining regional stability.  The
totalitarian ideology that motivated our cold war foes is dead, but today, as
President Clinton has said, "we face a contest as old as history--a struggle
between freedom and tyranny... between those who would build free societies
governed by laws and those who would impose their will by force.
    "In this new era, we face heightened threats that spill across borders,
The breakup of the Soviet Union brought risks that nuclear material could fall
into the wrong hands, just as advances in technology and the diffusion of
expertise could place weapons of mass destruction within reach of an increasing
number of states..."

It's time to get on with the discussion.  I believe we do have a community
concensus about what is and isn't "in context", but determining whether or not
cards meed the standard is often more subjective.  So let's start discussing
examples to determine exactly what we consider to be contextual so that
everyone knows what is expected out of evidence and so we can develop an
enforcable standard.

Sean Lemoine
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