“In a word: containment.
We won the Cold War largely by containing the Soviet Union’s expansionist ambitions. And we won that long war without the level of bloodshed we’ve already experienced in Iraq, or the amount of bloodshed we will incur if we continue trying to force these people to drink from the democratic pond. Instead we told the nations of the Soviet bloc that, if they wanted communism, fine, it was all theirs. But, we made clear, don’t look for any financial, political or military help from us. In essence we let them stew to death in their own dysfunctional communist pots. “
I think that the guy is an idiot, with the Soviet Union we “contained” their armor, air forces and their military, we accepted all of their people that could get here (to the west). We lost many tens of thousands of men in that struggle on various fronts.
Islam cannot be contained because their most powerful weapon isn’t the divisions pointed at the Fulda Gap, it is the individual Muslim.
We have to maintain the effort to change the geographical ‘heart’ of Islam, in an effort to alter the type of our new ‘citizens’ and visitors that travel from there.
I suppose he means there was never a hot war specifically between the USA and the USSR. However, as you note, there were the proxy wars of Korea and Vietnam fought near them and around the world from us. These indeed were hot wars with Communism sponsored by the USSR and China. He gives them clean hands on those wars, wars which they started.