The war on terror, it allows american nativism the opportunity to be its most authentic self when it comes to an enterprise of global policing. In that atmosphere, nativism is very happy to go abroad in search of a civilizational monster to destroy. This happens even as, and we're seeing this again to day, we have mediate depictions of afghanistan. The refugees from regimes that the united states created and then could not prop up after defeat in war, are treated as no different than the viit kong or the north of the enemy's army. And because you can't get vengeance on the viitkong or the North oe enemy's army, you sure
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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