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American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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Civil Military Dilemma and War Crimes

There's a complex way in which this discourse about the civil military divide. The question of who is entitled to speak about it has this effect of silencing a political conversation. Nobody has been called to account for having gone to war, right? We turned against it. Whoops, it was a lie, is not a political critique. So is Iraq. You cannot start a war on a pretext under international law. That is a war crime. There is no call into account. And we can't really get to that if we can't take account of American militarism.

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