The Insecurity State 0
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Tom Engelhart considers the costs of circling the wagons by the overreactionaries:
Given the enemy at hand – not a giant empire, but scattered jihadis and minority insurgencies in distant lands – all of these institutions, which make up the post-9/11 National Security Complex, expanded in ways that would have boggled the minds of previous generations (as would that most un-American of all words, “homeland”). All of this, in turn, happened in a poisonously paranoid atmosphere in Washington, and much of the rest of the country.
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