war on terror

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• SOURCE: Foreign Exchanges
  4/26/2021
  

  Necessary but Not Sufficient

  by Daniel Bessner

  The 2001 AUMF in effect has become yet another tool to enable the United States to prosecute a series of endless wars in the Global South.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/16/2021
  

  Biden Just Made a Historic Break With the Logic of Forever War

  by Stephen Wertheim

  A historian of American interventionism says that Joe Biden's apparent determination to withdraw from Afghanistan is a significant break from recent precedents, and possibly signals a shift away from perpetual war. 

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• 4/15/2021
  

  Is the Presidency a License to Kill? War Powers and the Constitution

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  The Framers' failure to defend war powers from the presidency has given us endless war. It's time to admit that failure. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  4/16/2021
  

  Choosing Empire: America Before And After World War II

  Historian Samuel Zipp reviews two new books by Nancy Cott and Stephen Wertheim that examine how the United States came to embrace, and perhaps become stuck with, a role as the world's policeman. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/19/2021
  

  Is America’s Longest Forever War Really Coming To An End?

  by Adam Weinstein and Stephen Wertheim

  The authors argue that Joe Biden has recognized that the US faces the choice of absolute withdrawal from Afghanistan or permanent entanglement. His resolve will be tested by inevitable bad news, but the time is now to move on from the policy of perpetual war. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/13/2021
  

  Biden Can Redeem His Mistake

  by George Packer

  Writer George Packer argues that withdrawing from Afghanistan repeats a mistake of the Vietnam era: abandoning groups who took the grave risk of allying with the United States. 

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• 4/11/2021
  

  Making Religious Peace in Afghanistan

  by Wayne Te Brake

  American policymakers must recognize the distinctly religious components of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, and learn from European wars of religion: the key to ending war is brokering a political agreement that protects religious diversity. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/28/2021
  

  America’s Longest War Winds Down

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Public fatigue over the ongoing War on Terror must not allow political leaders to do what they seem to want most to do: avoid taking responsibility or learning lessons.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/23/2021
  

  The Greater the Disaster, the Greater the Profits

  by Todd Miller

  Believe me, the forces that shaped our southern border over the decades have been far more powerful than Donald Trump or any individual politician.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/11/2021
  

  Obama Embraced ‘Endless Wars.’ Biden Probably Will, Too

  by Samuel Moyn

  Will Joe Biden's shift in tone from Trump's belligerence paper over many continuities in 21st-century American empire? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/7/2021
  

  Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

  by Nick Turse

  Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror. 

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 2 – Is There Even a "Trump Doctrine"?

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  Many Americans have bought Donald Trump's claim that he seeks to extricate the U.S. from "endless wars," including in Afghanistan. Viewed in the context of his other foreign policy actions, this claim is nonsensical, and undermines the work being done in support of global democracy and American interests.

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 1 – Abandoning a Vulnerable Ally in the War on Terror

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  Donald Trump's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan misrepresents the scope and costs of the American mission and ignores the high stakes of failure for both Afghans and American security, according to a scholar of the War on Terror. 

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Trump Claims Credit for Defeating ISIS. Pentagon Documents Show Otherwise

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  A historian and scholar of the War on Terror says that Trump's claims of credit in the fight against ISIS are hot air. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  9/23/2020
  

  Would Biden or Trump End America's Forever Wars?

  Stephen Wertheim questions whether politicians will heed the overwhelming public desire to scale back military intervention and get the Pentagon's spending under control. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/29/2020
  

  C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists

  The uncensored memoir makes the claim that torture interrupted and undermined effective interrogations by other means. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/26/2020
  

  The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War

  by Danny Sjursen

  With U.S. troops still fighting in Somalia, former West Point history instructor Danny Sjursen takes a deep dive into the future of American war in a Covid-19 world.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/22/2020
  

  Looking at War Across 2,500 Years (Review Essay)

  Recent books highlight the vast gap between perceptions and reality in warfare and foreground the gap between people who call for war and who fight it. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  5/13/2020
  

  FBI 'Mistakenly Reveals Saudi Official Linked' to 9/11 Attackers

  Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims, report says.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/12/2020
  

  Celebrated to Death: Memorial Day Is Killing Us

  by Erik Edstrom

  It should be our civic responsibility to change the forces that guide this nation. We must redefine what patriotism and national security truly stand for.