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“One of the most baleful consequences of the toxic combination of fear and money in the post-9/11 era has been the constriction of the physical landscape of the United States. Freedom of movement—one of the greatest attributes of life in the expanse of the United States—has been curtailed. Money has flowed from Washington and corporate America to finance security guards, security gates, metal detectors, and Jersey barriers; bit by bit, the United States has become a nation whose watchwords are now “authorized access only.”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
“You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“KBR won its coveted role in Iraq while it was a subsidiary of Halliburton, the company Vice President Dick Cheney ran before the 2000 presidential campaign. KBR was later spun off from Halliburton, but by then, it was well entrenched with a virtual monopoly over basic services for American troops in Iraq. At the height of the war, KBR had more than fifty thousand personnel and subcontractors working for it in Iraq, making the company’s presence in Iraq larger than that of the British Army.”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
“The object of terrorism is to use violence or the threat of violence to create fear and alarm,” says Jenkins. “And so terrorism has worked. Certainly, we have been the major contributors to that. We have scared the hell out of ourselves.”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
“President Obama’s decision to launch airstrikes against ISIS in the summer of 2014 raised the potential for a completely new war on terror, without ever having declared an end to the previous one. It also signified a questionable “whack-a-mole” strategy, in which the U.S. targets Islamic militant insurgencies before they ever attack the United States, just in case they might do so in the future. That strategy would almost guarantee that those groups will eventually turn against us, and that the endless war on terror would remain endless.”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
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