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Danner, Mark, 1958-
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Political aspects -- United States.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- History -- 21st century.
Military history, Modern -- 21st century.
World politics -- 21st century.
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century.
United States -- Military policy -- 21st century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
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Danner, Mark, 1958-
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Political aspects -- United States.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- History -- 21st century.
Military history, Modern -- 21st century.
World politics -- 21st century.
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century.
United States -- Military policy -- 21st century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
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Spiral : trapped in the forever
war
/ Mark Danner.
by
Danner, Mark, 1958-
Simon & Schuster, c2016.
Call #:
355.00973 D188s
Subjects
War
on
Terrorism
,
2001-2009
--
Political
aspects
--
United
States
.
Terrorism
--
Prevention
--
History
--
21st century.
Military history, Modern
--
21st century.
World politics
--
21st century.
United
States
--
History, Military
--
21st century.
United
States
--
Military policy
--
21st century.
United
States
--
Foreign relations
--
21st century.
ISBN:
9781476747767 (hc.)
1476747768 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
267 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.
Contents:
Introduction
--
Bush : imposing the exception : constitutional dictatorship, torture, and us
--
Obama : normalizing the exception : terror, fear, and the
war
without end
--
Afterword.
Summary:
"Trapped in a forever
war
by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a
war
of choice and without an exit plan, and President Obama has proven unable to take the country off what he has called its "permanent
war
footing." The
War
on Terror has led to fourteen years of armed conflict, the longest
war
in America's history. Al Qaeda, the organization that attacked us on 9/11, has been "decimated" (the word is Obama's) but replaced by multiple jihadist and terror organizations, including the most notorious--ISIS. Spiral is what we can call a perpetual and continuously widening
war
that has put the country in a "state of exception." Bush's promise that we have "taken the gloves off" and Obama's inability to define an end game have had a profound effect on us even though the actual combat is fought by a tiny percentage of our citizens. In the name of security, some of our accustomed rights and freedoms are circumscribed. Guantanamo, indefinite detention, drone warfare, enhanced interrogation, torture, and warrantless wiretapping are all words that have become familiar and tolerated. And yet the
war
goes badly as the Middle East drowns in civil wars and the Caliphate expands and brutalized populations flee and seek asylum in Europe. In defining the
War
on Terror as boundless, apocalyptic, and unceasing, we have, Danner concludes, "let it define us as ideological crusaders caught in an endless
war
.""--From publisher.
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