Journalist and Former Marine Elliot Ackerman
Intelligence Matters
The Construct of the War on Terror
Every every war that america has fought since the revolution has needed a a construct to sustain it. The blood comes from our all volunteer military, and the treasure is our national deficit. We put the cost of the wars on our national credit card. It's concerning for democracy to wage war this way. And we should ask ourselves going forward, because there will certainly be another war, or does it lead us into very complicated and i would argue negative moral waters?
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