Is the World Moving toward a New Kind of Cold War?

The Beijing Olympics and Russia's actions in Georgia pose new challenges to the US and the western alliance. Is it time for aggressiveness or accommodation? Is there a risk of confrontations that can't be won? Also, NATO troops come under fire from the Taliban, and with less than a week before the presidential nominating conventions begin, what's latest on public opinion.

Banner image: China's Zou Kai, winner of the Horizontal gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games. Photo: Xinhua