Although the Cold War has ended and superpower tensions have eased, the United States should resist its "temptation to turn inward" because such isolationism "contains certain dangers," warned Dick Cheney, former secretary of defense under President Bush, at the convention's opening general session. Cheney pointed to three troubling post-Cold War myths: centre dot Communism would have fallen regardless of what the United States did. centre dot Although it was important for the United States to provide Cold War leadership, now it's someone else's turn. centre dot There are no major world threats at the moment. He dismissed the first point as "hogwash," then dispatched the second by stating, "There isn't anybody else who could have done what we've done... [and today] if leadership is going to be provided, it's going to come from the United States."
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