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000760406 1001_ $$aDanner, Mark,$$d1958-$$eauthor.
000760406 24510 $$aSpiral :$$btrapped in the forever war /$$cMark Danner.
000760406 250__ $$aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
000760406 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$c2016.
000760406 264_4 $$c©2016
000760406 300__ $$a267 pages ;$$c24 cm
000760406 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000760406 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000760406 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000760406 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.
000760406 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Bush : imposing the exception : constitutional dictatorship, torture, and us -- Obama : normalizing the exception : terror, fear, and the war without end -- Afterword.
000760406 520__ $$a"Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and President Obama has proven unable to take the country off what he has called its "permanent war footing." The War on Terror has led to fourteen years of armed conflict, the longest war in America's history. Al Qaeda, the organization that attacked us on 9/11, has been "decimated" (the word is Obama's) but replaced by multiple jihadist and terror organizations, including the most notorious--ISIS. Spiral is what we can call a perpetual and continuously widening war that has put the country in a "state of exception." Bush's promise that we have "taken the gloves off" and Obama's inability to define an end game have had a profound effect on us even though the actual combat is fought by a tiny percentage of our citizens. In the name of security, some of our accustomed rights and freedoms are circumscribed. Guantanamo, indefinite detention, drone warfare, enhanced interrogation, torture, and warrantless wiretapping are all words that have become familiar and tolerated. And yet the war goes badly as the Middle East drowns in civil wars and the Caliphate expands and brutalized populations flee and seek asylum in Europe. In defining the War on Terror as boundless, apocalyptic, and unceasing, we have, Danner concludes, "let it define us as ideological crusaders caught in an endless war.""--$$cProvided by publisher.
000760406 650_0 $$aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009$$xPolitical aspects$$zUnited States.
000760406 650_0 $$aTerrorism$$xPrevention$$xHistory$$y21st century.
000760406 650_0 $$aMilitary history, Modern$$y21st century.
000760406 650_0 $$aWorld politics$$y21st century.
000760406 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory, Military$$y21st century.
000760406 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xMilitary policy$$y21st century.
000760406 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xForeign relations$$y21st century.
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