The near instantaneous reemergence of antique Cold Warriors in response to the ‘crisis’ in Crimea is clear indication that they were never far from the front lines of U.S. foreign policy. The history in the West of cynical opportunists using contrived ideology in the service imperialist-capitalist land grabs and atrocities would have seemed to have met its logical end with baby (George W.) Bush’s botched wars on and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Any social order interested in ‘its’ self-preservation would have packed these residual sociopaths off to long stints in the military stockade for their war crimes and then on to bedpan detail at the senior citizens’ homes to which most of...
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