The Global War on Terror has become the Pentagon’s greatest tool in waging endless military campaigns. - Tom Engelhardt
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About Tom Engelhardt
Thomas M. "Tom" Engelhardt (born 1944) is an American writer and editor. He is the creator of The Nation Institute's tomdispatch.com, an online blog. He is also the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author several books including most recently The United States of Fear (2011), Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single Superpower World (2014) and A Nation Unmade by War (2018).
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Addicted to war? Not us. Still, all in all, it’s quite a record and let’s not forget that looming on the horizon is another possible war, this time with Iran, a country that the men overseeing the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (including present National Security Advisor John Bolton) were eager to go after even then. “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad,” so the saying reputedly went in Washington at the time. “Real men want to go to Tehran.” And it’s just possible that, in 2019, Bolton and crew will be able to act on that much delayed urge. Considering the history of American wars in these years, what could possibly go wrong?
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