Bob Woodward’s new book on the Bush years in Iraq raises the possibility that extrajudicial killings–not the surge–were the biggest factor in reducing violence.
Seven years after the attacks, the Bush Administration’s strategy to transform the world has squandered our resources, buried us in debt and poses a greater strategic threat than Osama bin Laden ever did.
It’s not that big a leap from the public service work done by community organizers and the pragmatic work of coalition-building done by elected officials.
We suffer not only from the loss of innocent life on 9/11, but because the attacks became the rationale for an unjust war. It’s time to face the truth.
A historic line has been crossed. With no debate or commitment to policy or principle, an enormous segment of the American economy has been turned over to the government.