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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Were Fast Forwarding a Little Bit to the Present?

The war on terror is a social compromise to not say, you know, the war on radical isuamic terror. But it's not a war on terror, qua terror. Because what we see very quickly is that not everyone's terror is the subject of the war on terrorwhite ple's terrorism becomes the lowest priority for fbi counter terrorism. It also creates, you see this bubbling up on the right throughout the bush administration that like this, about jahatas terrorism. This is about something concerning islam. And the right keeps kind of demanding a more explicit response here,. because the sense that the war on Terror and its architects consistently send is that islam is the

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