I agree with you on every count, Frank. Yes, the War on Terror is a ruse. After the Soviet system's collapse in '89 the USA's gigantic military-industrial complex needed a new enemy, and soon. So they manufactured one. Now they have a war that is defined in such a manner that it can never be brought to an end. What could be more perfect for their purposes?

George Orwell predicted this sort of thing in "1984". He was off by less than 20 years. But he did NOT expect it to be achieved by capitalists, and that is kind of ironical, I think.