from AlterNet. Excerpts from Tom Engelhardt's recently published book.
Engelhardt's new book, "The American Way of War," explores the U.S.'s jaw-dropping transformation into a global military empire.
Here is just one excerpt:
Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere (usually, in fact, many places) at any moment.
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