In his piece today at TomDispatch, Tom considers the purposes of the James Foley execution video; Osama bin Ladens greatest insight – that an America lured into massive military intervention could do for his movement what that movement couldn’t do for itself (and how that applies to ISIS today); and why Washington is so incapable of imagining its impact elsewhere in the world (and how its own library of grim videos and imagery from Abu Ghraib to CIA torture videos to drone snuff films plays in Muslim lands). Consider this an attempt at a new overview of America’s escalation follies and just what they lead to.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:00:01 +0000
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