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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/25/2023
Americans Still Fumble in the Dark for Facts on Torture
by Karen J. Greenberg
The persistent efforts of scholars and human rights advocates are chipping away at the secrecy surrouding America's use of torture under the banner of national security in the War on Terror.
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4/16/2023
No Blood for Oil: Examining the Movement Against the Iraq War
by Charles F. Howlett
David Cortright's history of the opposition to the Iraq War places the peace movement in the context of the underacknowledged peace movements of the American past.
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12/11/2022
How an Abstract "War on Terror" Became All Too Real in Iraq and Afghanistan
by Roger Peace
Politics drove the Bush administration to expand the scope of a military response to 9/11 to cover costly entanglements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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SOURCE: The Intercept
11/6/2022
Post-9/11 Wars Created the Foot Solders of Far-Right Violence
Historian Kathleen Belew says that war affects not only veterans, but makes an entire society more receptive to the possibility of violence.
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8/14/2022
Killing of al-Zawahiri in Kabul Vindicates Strategic Separation of Counterterrorism and Military Occupation
by Brian Glyn Williams
On withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration touted its "over the horizon" capability to track and target terrorists from afar. If the strategy proves out, it should mean the ability to fully decouple antiterror operations from foreign military presence.
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SOURCE: Quincy Institute
8/1/2022
Post-Cold War Interventions show Military Restraint is the Key to Protecting Human Rights
by Aslı Bâli
America's foreign policy establishment must "right-size" its expectations about the ability of US military power to secure desired outcomes, and prepare to embrace non-coercive approaches to human rights crises that will be precipitated by climate change and food crises.
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4/3/2022
Can the US Credibly Condemn Russian Attacks on Civilians?
by Paul Lovinger
Are American military actions different from Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure only in degree?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/13/2022
It's Wrong for Biden to Punish Afghans for 9/11
by H.A. Hellyer and Farid Senzai
It's unconscionable to punish ordinary Afghans, who were themselves victimized by the Taliban, by seizing frozen bank funds as restitution to the families of 9/11 victims.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/20/2022
The Elusive Guantanamo Endgame
by Karen J. Greenberg
"In the legal quagmire the U.S. has created, there is, in fact, no easy solution to closing Guantanamo."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
12/21/2021
How Awesome Is “Awesome”? Rating the US Military on Cost-Benefit Terms
by Andrew Bacevich
Is it impolite, then, to ask if the nation is getting an adequate return on its investment in military power?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/13/2021
Americans Have been Forgetting Afghanistan for 20 Years. I Didn't Have That Luxury
by Ali A. Olomi
"Every Afghan American I know has lost a family member or friend. The war became part of who we were and even shaped our career trajectories. Afghan friends became immigration attorneys and activists. I became a historian."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
12/9/2021
Are We Forever Captives of the Forever Wars?
by Karen J. Greenberg
The Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed by Congress after 9/11 has been expanded from fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan to justify action in at least 19 countries. Repealing it is the first step to freeing Americans from the Pentagon's Forever Wars.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
11/4/2021
Was Afghanistan Just a Schell Game?
by Nick Turse
Somehow being right about American wars never translates into celebrity or widespread media appearances.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
10/7/2021
Never Having to Say You're Sorry
by Karen J. Greenberg
Numerous players with large and small roles in creating the expansive War on Terror have issued mea culpas; the major architects and the interests who profit from war have not.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/28/2021
Droning On: America's Assassins-in-Chief
by Tom Engelhardt
Since the Bush administration, every President has used drone technology to be the nation's assassin-in-chief. In a nation increasingly tolerant of mass COVID death at home, does this even have the power to shock?
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/30/2021
"A Horrible Mistake": Time to Ditch CENTCOM
by Andrew Bacevich
Created by military reorganization undertaken by the Reagan administration, CENTCOM assumes control of potential military operations in 20 nations, where a half-billion people live. In the decades of its existence, it has overseen the decline and imminent collapse of American empire.
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SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
9/28/2021
Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism: October 11
In the Washington History Seminar, Mary Dudziak and Mark Philip Bradley discuss their edited volume of the work of Marilyn Young, the preeminent historian of war in the modern United States. Monday, October 11,
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SOURCE: TIME
9/19/2021
Why Didn't We Leave Afghanistan Before Now?
by Carter Malkasian
Above all other considerations, America's interminable military presence in Afghanistan was driven by politicians' fears of blame for a future terrorist attack.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/21/2021
The Profits of War
by William Hartung
Between weapons systems and a shadow army of contractors and logistics consultants, the War on Terror has been a bonanza for large corporations that shows no signs of abating.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/12/2021
The Winner in Afghanistan? China
by Alfred McCoy
While the similarities between the American exits from Vietnam and Afghanistan are superficially obvious, the differences are more significant, and signal a steep decline in America's ability to influence world affairs.