Day of reckoning for the media handmaidens of war
It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity.
It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity.
And why waging a generational conflict is ultimately unhealthy for the republic.
The first American charged under the Espionage Act after the attacks asks whether empire has permanently replaced the republic.
If anything, bureaucratic and physical distance increased between agencies and lines became blurrier.
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.
But it was a trap laid by Osama bin Laden that only Washington could spring. And it did.
The US military role in Afghanistan is over, but the costs will continue to mount as the forever wars rage on.
In new book, Spencer Ackerman shows how the post-9/11 Global War on Terror gave us neither the peace or stability it promised.
But all bets are off if the United States starts rekindling a civil conflict there.
George W. Bush, the architect of our 9/11 wars, is trying to tell us how to think and feel about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
We stand almost exactly where we did nearly 50 years ago: leaving a failed war behind with little to show for it but pain and regret.
The Michigan freshman and combat veteran says it’s time for Congress to step up and take care of this ‘low hanging fruit.’
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.
Just look at the disastrous regime wars and persecution of Muslims after 9/11 to sense where this could go.
Perhaps the horrors of 2020 can force a real conversation about national security in 2021.