Volume 55, Number 19 · December 4, 2008
A Larger War on Terror?
By David Cole
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
by Philip Bobbitt
Knopf, 672 pp., $35.00
When historians reflect on the Bush administration's legacy, the 'war on terror' will almost certainly be its most important feature. That 'war,' declared by the President shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has defined the administration in its relations both to the rest of the world and to its own people at home. In the name of the 'war on terror,' the administration has invaded and occupied two countries, implemented a single-minded and often unilateral foreign policy, asserted unprecedented executive power, and sought to justify a host of human rights violations, from disappearances to torture.
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