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The UK and no doubt the US government have been behind this deal which
shows an alliance between the forces of finance capital, and those wishing
to organise the world on *slightly* more rational lines.
It shows that Britain's military intervention in Sierra Leone earlier this
year was not simple old-fashioned gun-boat diplomacy.
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Charles: Chris, this is nice analytical summary. I would just say that a lot of the old gunboat diplomacy was about the same sort of thing as this intervention.