WASHINGTON -- Peace is boring. How else to explain America's seemingly incessant search for a new enemy?
After the Cold War, America's foreign policy establishment could have gratefully accepted peace, stopped meddling around the globe, and demobilized America's outsize military. Instead, it found other enemies.
Doing so wasn't easy. Saddam Hussein's Iraq proved to be easy prey. Now Iran is getting the most attention.
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