Mon 2 Feb 2015
Groundhog Day in the War on Terror
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
William J. Astore TomDispatch
It was launched immediately after the 9/11 attacks, when I was still in the military, and almost immediately became known as the Global War on Terror, or GWOT. Pentagon insiders called it “the long war,” an open-ended, perhaps unending, conflict against nations and terror networks mainly of a radical Islamist bent. It saw the revival of counterinsurgency doctrine, buried in the aftermath of defeat in Vietnam, and a reinterpretation of that disaster as well. (more…)