If one applies this logic to the current imperialist war against Yugoslavia, the US led NATO attacks are being made in order to destroy the Balkans and then re-build them, thus leading to a new 25year boom cycle. We do not see war as the motor force of history. In the stalinist Communist Parties during the 1970's a revisionist trend stzrted to emerge which wanted a 'reformed' stalinism and attempted to throw the baby out with the bathwater. History, or more importantly, imperialist history had a brief respite with the assumption of power of its leadrship by America. Trotsky even predicted this eventuality This doesn't mean that American leadership is eternal or that Trotsky's Transitional Programme and consequently marxism is invalidated as capitalism still exists.
Death still comes to the living.
Bob Pitt needs to change paths, but the above comments will probably lead to a hardening of his resolve, into the opposite course.