The logic driving this state of affairs is not only self-fulfilling, its self-perpetuating. The more they act with impunity the more abuses are committed, the more they have to cover up and the more secrecy they need. So long as it happened abroad, the consequences for the American polity were limited. Abu Ghraib and drone attacks cost precious few votes or senior careers. But it was only a matter of time before these ramifications started making themselves felt at home. Foreign policy doesnt take place in a vacuum; its co-ordinated by and incorporated into the same system that elaborates domestic policy. Once you have told operatives to take their gloves off and fight dirty on the road they dont just start playing by Queensbury rules at home. Those openly called on to flout international law in the interests of a higher good do not then suddenly submit that goal to domestic law once theyve gone through customs. Once the state has deliberately created space for power to be exercised without accountability those who occupy that space will protect it against enemies domestic and foreign. When your war is global and unending it inevitably comes home and keeps going. The monster the US has unleashed on the rest of the world is steadily devouring its own. theguardian/commentisfree/2014/mar/09/cia-america-fighting-shadows
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:14:51 +0000
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