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War Fever<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There is a fever that seizes this land from time to time and it is the fever of war, a condition that this time seems immune to all known cures, starting with reason, as Daniel Lazare explores.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>What happens when an unthinkable war meets an unbeatable case of war fever?\u00a0\u00a0Thanks to Russia-gate, unsubstantiated reports about the use of poison gas in Syria, and a slew of similar factoids and pseudo-scandals, the world may soon find out.<\/p>\n

In saner times, including during the Cold War at even its most heated, political leaders knew not to push a conflict with a rival nuclear power too far.\u00a0\u00a0After all, what was the point of getting into a fight in which everyone would lose?<\/p>\n

Cooler heads thus prevailed in Washington while more excitable sorts were shipped off to where they could do no harm.\u00a0\u00a0This is what kept the peace during the U-2 affair, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis and what promised to continue doing so even after the advent of American \u201cunipolarity\u201d in 1989-92.<\/p>\n

But that was then.\u00a0\u00a0Today, the question is no\u00a0longer how to avoid a fight that can only lead to catastrophe, but how to avoid a showdown with a country that \u201cin the past four years has annexed Crimea, intervened in eastern Ukraine, sought to influence the American election in 2016, allegedly poisoned a former Russian spy living in Britain and propped up the murderous government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria,\u201d to quote the bill of indictment in a recent front-page\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0in The New York Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Given that the list of alleged atrocities expands with virtually each passing week, the answer, increasingly, is: no way, no how.\u00a0\u00a0Since Russia is bent on spreading \u201cconflict and discord\u201d throughout the west \u2013 if only in the eyes of the U.S.,<\/b> that is \u2013 confrontation grows more\u00a0and\u00a0more likely.<\/p>\n

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