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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200Why the war on terror is not the Cold War. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For much of the 1990s the autocrats of the former Yugoslavia seized control of the fragmenting country and initiated an ethnically inspired bloodbath.