This month marks 15 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq. With all the talk of ‘totalitarianism’ in the Trump era,let’s not forget what came before
People talk a lot approximately “totalitarianism” in the Trump era. I’ve never really loved the category: it seems to paper over some pretty deep differences between the entities one might call totalitarian. But if there was a “totalitarian” moment in my lifetime, it is unquestionably the period between 9/11 and the Iraq war. It’s not simply that war criminals enlisted the aid of the press and every other ideological apparatus in our country to launch a massively destructive, and destabilizing,and totally unwarranted war of aggression (the principle crime against humanity), although they did. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk