Damon Linker – The lies we tell ourselves about America’s forever wars

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Americans are asleep at the wheel while their government is endlessly at war. As far as they are concerned, it's in a foreign place, somewhere else, and their news media has told them that there are lots of dictators and terrorists out there in the third world. People trust their government, but could the biggest sponsor of international terrorism be Washington and its allies itself? KVDamon Linker This expansion of America's global military footprint began under George W. Bush, but it continued under Barack Obama. By the time the latter left office, the U.S. was waging wars or deeply implicated in them in at least seven countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia) — all of them supposedly authorized by the open-ended non-declaration of war passed by

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