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A truly prophetic article that I think will interest you and dispel myths that Raimondo is some out-there, anti-war crazed person. It includes commentary on Putin also, published 12/22/2000. The US has a sad history of creating political monsters and we have an IDIOT in the Whitehouse.

THE NEW COLD WAR:
WHO'S AFRAID OF VLADIMIR PUTIN?

By: Justin Raimondo

http://www.etherzone.com/2000/raim122200.html

Published in the December 22, 2000 issue of Ether Zone
Copyright © 2000 Ether Zone (http://etherzone.com)


Dubya in the White House in the beginning of another kind of nightmare....

Perhaps the bombs will start falling on Baghdad even before Dubya is installed in the Oval Office, perhaps not. But they fall they will, and sooner rather than later....

There is the same sense of disengagement, and of non-intellectuality, not to mention many of the same foreign policy advisors. Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and a whole platoon of neoconservative ideologues for whom the cold war never really ended. The infamous Wolfowitz Doctrine holds that even the hint of a rising rival power that could potentially challenge us – in any region of the world – must be met with force or the threat of it.

THE RUSSIAN FRANKENSTEIN RISES AGAIN?
The news of the Putin-Castro alliance must have sent a thrill of nostalgia through the cold warrior set. Why, it was almost like old times again, when the Soviet Threat was a dark shadow looming over the world and the unlimited expenditures of the American national security state were at their command. Happy days are here again! It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. Of course, only a fool would fall for this line of horse-pucky: the idea that Putin is suddenly turning on his benefactors, who have so far spared no expense in bailing out him and his bankrupt nation, is so absurd that only a conservative would fall for it: But, then again, they fell for it last time, didn't they? If Putin is the enemy of the West, then he is also, in an important sense, our own creation. Make of that what you will....