dan, minnesota. you are on with mark jacobson.- do youestion think this new cold war with ofsia will do the trick boosting the endless war industry now that the war of terror has been deflated by more people realizing that building seven was brought down and controlled demolition on 9/11? let's steer way from the rhetoric that says we're going to go back to a cold war. i grew up during the cold war. many of those out there grew up during the cold war. it was not a pleasant time with 11,000 tj nuclear weapons pointed at this -- 11,000 strategic nuclear weapons pointed at this country. i would avoid that. there are lessons to be drawn from the cold war. certainly lessons in dealing with the russians. at the same time, i do not think ,e are dealing with a bipolar global conflict. politicaling to be a and economic struggle over the short term. it will not be an all-encompassing economic political military is a logical -- ideological struggle. laura from twitter says if nato had been disbanded, we would have a better relationship with