Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
ISBN-13:
9781476747767
ISBN-10:
1476747768
Author:
Mark Danner
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Format:
Hardcover
288 pages
Category:
United States History
,
United States
,
Military History
,
Iraq War
,
Military
,
Law Specialties
,
United States
,
Politics & Government
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9781476747767
ISBN-10:
1476747768
Author:
Mark Danner
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Format:
Hardcover
288 pages
Category:
United States History
,
United States
,
Military History
,
Iraq War
,
Military
,
Law Specialties
,
United States
,
Politics & Government
,
Americas History
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War (ISBN-13: 9781476747767 and ISBN-10: 1476747768), written by authors
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Description
“[A] chilling cautionary tale of Orwellian repercussions.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Masterly...eloquent” —The New York Review of Books
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.”
“Masterly...eloquent” —The New York Review of Books
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.”
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