How America Lost the Cold War

Michael Lind takes on "a Cold War system under which the U.S. gives away its industries while wasting taxes and the lives of its soldiers," suggesting that both "America's deepening war in Afghanistan" and "the American trade deficit... are the results of Cold War policies that made sense at one time but are now harmful to the United States" — Cold War Without End.

The author concludes, "America's out-of-touch foreign policy establishment continues to favor the policy of expanding America's geopolitical frontiers while allowing our self-interested industrial rivals to hollow out the American economy."