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This observation also marks a continuity across that other wall, the one that fell in Berlin in 1989. For it shows that Mr. X's Cold War Containment was not only or even primarily against the Russians, but also a Containment of the other 95 percent of the world and especially of the vast poor majority who suffers most from the disparity he observed. Indeed, he suggests that the East-West Cold War, that he was instrumental in starting already as Uncle Sam's ambassador in Moscow, was largely a proxy for the North- and especially Uncle Sam-South real war over that half, or both halves, of the world's wealth. So that should leave us less surprised at the failure of the mistakenly anticipated ''Peace Dividend" to materialize after that little wall fell down in 1989. The other, or the real, war continues and only takes other forms or rather labels, for 'human rights," "democracy," the "free market" and "free trade," "freedom" in general, indeed even ''civilization," all of the last several of which are echoes of the ''white man's burden" from the 19th century. Just add a few new againsts, first ''narco terrorism" by Bush Daddy vs. Noriega, and now just undefined "terrorism" by Bush Son vs. anybody and everybody "who is not with us." I forgot "weapons of mass destruction," the ones of which Uncle Sam has and uses the most, oh and weapons of mass deception that Uncle Sam uses like nobody's business. That is of course a sine qua non of any Confidence Racket, and he runs the world's grandest ever, as we will observe ad nauseum, starting right now.
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