In other words, the war on terror has produced little for the US to brag about. Against this bleak backdrop, Spencer Ackerman delivers his first book under the subtitle “How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”. In his effort to draw as straight a line as possible between the war on terror and the rise of Trump, Ackerman can overplay his hand. In a break with Obama and Trump, the Biden White House has pledged to no longer go gunning for reporters over leaks. And last Wednesday, the Senate foreign relations committee voted to end the 1991 and 2002 authorizations of use of military force in Iraq.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2021 06:00 UTC