Or, as Colin Powell put it, it is not just that the Cold War is over - now the post Cold War is over too.

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But the most importantly it's the Afghanis who should realise that the war with Russia is over now and they themselves have to define their future now, a future where they do not have to pass to the next generation what they have learned.

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But it is at last possible to see more or less how the western world's reorganised arms industry is going to look now that the cold war is over.

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But Mr Putin told reporters that now the war is over "the role of the UN should be not only restored but strengthened".

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Now the cold war is over the old world has not changed quickly enough.

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Now that the Iraq war is over, some feel that they no longer have a place in the military.

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Now it is Mr Blair who pores over war plans with Mr Bush.

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Now that the format war is in full swing and CES is over, we are left wondering where the official format war sales numbers are?

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Williams agreed with what Ahmed Rashid said just a few moments ago, that the battle has been won in the southern village - for now - but the war, he thinks, is far from over.

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Support for the Iraq war is also up slightly over the past six months, from 30 percent in June to 37 percent now.

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