The figure of the Islamic terrorist has made it hard to articulate an anti-war politics, she says. "I think 9-11 set the tone for feeling like this was justified" The wars didn't go well and goals kept shifting, but they were still seen as just wars, she adds. 'We haven't had those conversations'
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview.
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