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‘Reign of Terror’ with Spencer Ackerman

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Do You Think We Should Have Taken the Strikes?

I don't accept that the existence of real securit threats is a justification for the disfigurement of american institutions that protect actual people's freedom. What we mean by protecting national security is very often protecting a hedremonic prerogative, rather than the safety of actual people. The example of not taking the strike on abumusabsarkawi demonstrates how fungible the commitments to protecting people are when they come against commitments to that higemity. I think if we want to talk about the burdens of continued prospective threats that come out of the war on terror, then it is those elits who should be made to answer for why there is such persist in terrorism despite

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