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[The American Exception] The war on terror in its second decade. Continuity we have to ...: An area in which there is some disagreement is the geographic scope of the conflict.  The United States does not view our authority to use military force against al-Qa’ida as being restricted solely to “hot” battlefields like Afghanistan.  Because we are engaged in an armed conflict with al-Qa’ida, the United States takes the legal position that ””in accordance with international law””we have the authority to take action against al-Qa’ida and its associated forces without doing a separate self-defense analysis each time. 

[LewRockwell.com] How Washington Creates Global Instability by Tom Engelhardt: Leaving aside current wars, over the last century, the United States has engaged in military interventions in the global south in Cambodia, Congo, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Egypt, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Panama, the Philippines, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia, Thailand, and Vietnam, among other places. The CIA has waged covert campaigns in many of the same countries, as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Chile, Ecuador, Indonesia,Iran, and Syria, to name just a few.

[The Foxhole] Dem Congressman, Tony Bennett, Come Crawling Out of the ...: In a soft-spoken voice, the singer disagreed with Stern’s premise that 9/11 terrorists’ actions led to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Euromediapresse.com] THE LONGEST WAR «: TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq””only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight continues: the war on terror rages with no clear end in sight. In The Longest War Peter Bergen offers a comprehensive history of this war and its evolution, from the strategies devised in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to the fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond.

[dance-apparel blog 2] 9/11?s Fading Role in Political Conversation | dance-apparel blog 2: — but does that dialogue continue, 10 years later? And later, frustrations over the Iraq war helped sink President Bush's approval ratings and propel a little-known Senator named Barack Obama, who started his underdog presidential campaign in 2007 fueled by antiwar sentiment in the Democratic Party.

[New Atlanticist] Afghanistan Now a Pointless War? | Atlantic Council: Instead, the United States, its NATO allies and other friendly nations sent in more troops, ostensibly to keep punishing al-Qaida remnants in Afghanistan, estimated by the United States at 50 to 100 -- the same number given 10 years later by newly sworn in U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

[Corporate Press Releases (India)] Shankar Roychowdhury - Corporate Press Releases (India) - Daily ...: It was a “shot heard around the world” with which the United States launched its war on terror on October 7, 2001, under President George W. Bush, directed initially at the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, but expanded subsequently to the entirely unconnected requirement of invading Iraq and removing Saddam Hussain.

[PNAC ATTACK! Reichstag Fire 911 to Pax Americana] The Last Dream: Secrets (John Pilger, 1988) « PNAC ATTACK ...: We must put labels to arms of every single person - which disagree with us and with our policy in our 'war on terror' agenda with labels like: anti-Germanic, anti-invader, wrong colored eyes, wrong colored skin, anti-fascist, anti-Nazi-Fascist, Resistance terrorist, anti-violence lover, anti-hate, illegal War protester, Gleiwitz Incident was an inside job truther, Reicstag Fire was an inside job truther, 3rd Reich is going to Conquer world Mein Kampf truther (with extra label: Dangerous crazy extremist), Historian (knowledge is bad for brainwashed), Intellectual (knowledge is bad for brainwashed), Teacher (knowledge is bad for brainwashed), Progressive Intellectual: Enemy of far right wing state - Thinks too much human rights and is too decent, left wing anti-3rd Reich journalist, right wing anti-3rd Reich journalist, other party group representing anti-3rd Reich journalist, Left wing Capitalist Socialist Democrat terrorist, Left wing Socialist anti-Communist terrorist, Communist Nazi invasion resisting terrorist, Jewish, Gipsy, Gay, right winger which resits Nazi-fascist policy , war crime protestor, anti-master race Army wrong Terrorist, anti-Hypocrite, anti-War Monger Führer, Gestapo torture policy hater, anti-BUllShit lover (with extra label: We cal him communist), Germany loves everybody denier, Idiotism hater, Holocaust claimer, Unconstitutional under laws of 3rd Reich, People's Court hater, July 20 Plot - to the Final Victory not believing & Hitler is crazy lunatic acclaiming Traitor, Final victory denier, immigrant worker, Tourist terrorist, 1000 years Reich denier, Though criminal, Big brother surveillance hater, Goebbels 'These are the facts "news" denier' - we can also use different colours in those arm patches so that pre-CIA: SS Einsaztgruppen can "hug" them to death and send, store them to "better" places - by using trains.

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] Tomgram: Nick Turse, How Washington Creates Global Instability ...: In addition to waging more wars in “arc” nations, Obama has overseen the deployment of greater numbers of special operations forces to the region, has transferred or brokered the sale of substantial quantities of weapons there, while continuing to build and expand military bases at a torrid rate, as well as training and supplying large numbers of indigenous forces.  Pentagon documents and open source information indicate that there is not a single country in that arc in which U.S. military and intelligence agencies are not now active.  This raises questions about just how crucial the American role has been in the region’s increasing volatility and destabilization.

[The National Interest] The Iraq War and the Power of Propaganda | The National Interest ...: The belief was cultivated by repeatedly uttering “Iraq,” “9/11” and “war on terror” in the same breath. The cultivation was so successful that by the peak of the war-promoters’ sales campaign in late 2002 a majority of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein not only was allied with al-Qaeda but also had been directly involved in the 9/11 attack.

[Making Editore Blog Main] Cheney Reflects on Civil Liberties, Terror Fight, Bush Team | Making ...: JUDY WOODRUFF: One last question. Mitt Romney, former governor of

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