How Obsolete, Triumphalist Militarism Is Destroying America | The Nation - 0 views
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lindsayweber1 on 26 Oct 16"In 2006, even as the Bush administration's misadventure in Iraq was coming unraveled, the Pentagon issued a quadrennial review promoting its "Long War" strategy. The struggle, it said, "may well be fought in dozens of countries simultaneously and for many years to come." The generals turned out to be right in ways they did not foresee but that now plague the Middle East and have created new burdens for Washington. Pentagon leaders are now whispering to favored national security reporters that endless war is harder than they promised."