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Book SynopsisIn a clear-eyed and shrewd examinationof how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever altered by President George W. Bushs war of choice after 9/11.The War on Terror has led to fifteen years of armed conflict, the longest war in Americas history. Al Qaeda, the organization that attacked us on 9/11, has been decimated (the word is Obamas) but replaced by multiple jihadist and terror organizations, including the most notoriousISIS.
Spiral, explains Mark Danner, is what we can call a perpetual and continuously widening war that has put the country in a state of exception. Bushs promise that we have taken the gloves off and Obamas 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 circumscr
