I think on a moral level, what's most fundamentally monstrous about this lack or really maybe inability to acknowledge the war on terror is the people who have suffered on the other end of American violence. But I do think that this fundamental inability to have any real reckoning with these wars has also had very serious political consequences for the U.S., which is also bad news for the rest of the world. It just, you see American politics beginning to be consumed with resentment and reading your book. And so I really see this this two decade long process of maximal imperial expansion, and then this ricocheting resentment filled inward turn. There's enough out there if they wanted to pay attention, but it
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