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Spencer Ackerman
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“Triumph over the left or liberals—two different political traditions that the right often conflated—took on the imperative of national survival, a posture familiar from the right’s approach to the Cold War.”
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
“By the time Administrator Bremer departed, $8.8 billion in reconstruction funds—taxpayer money harvested during a recession while Bush tilted more of the tax burden onto the middle and working classes—had simply disappeared without leaving a paper trail, while American contractors selling the occupation everything from laundry detergent to private security reaped windfalls.”
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
“Bush was showing the Muslim world the America that bin Laden depicted: both a bloodthirsty oppresser and a vulnerable one. The United States looked like a rampaging tyrant, ruling through fear and coercion, yet one which Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan were demonstrating could be defeated. Bin Laden explained his strategy as simply provoking America into being itself. Much as the Soviet Union had collapsed after the Afghanistan insurgency—which he neglected to mention had aligned him with the CIA—bin Laden said, “We are continuing this policy, in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.” A”
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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