Rich – I’m with you. I’ve been reading Norman Podhoretz’s World War IV and I think there’s much to recommend it. But I just don’t like World War IV as a organizing label. I’ve been meaning to write a column about this, but I think Cold War II makes more sense strategically and logically, though it fails on “marketing” grounds. The whole point of the Cold War was that it wasn’t like World Wars One and Two. The Cold War, on the other hand, recognized that there were different fronts, some military, some diplomatic, some economic. But the essence of the Cold War was that it wasn’t a big mash-em-up war with a defined beginning and end. That’s what we face now.

Update: Just to be clear.