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Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!)
My Strange Tale of How the War on Terror Came Home in the Age of Donald J. Trump
Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later.
I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers
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Yes, the decline of empires has long been as much a part of history, and often as dramatic, as their rise. However, Trump-style decline should, I think, still be seen as a rarity in the history of empires. Though he’s seldom written about this way, Donald J. Trump is quite literally the personification of American imperial decline. In truth, he’s acting it out in an all
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From torture to wars of so many kinds, cruelty seems to have been an essential trait of American ruling groups in this century and Donald Trump has been anything but an exception. He’s
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Imagine this: as the Costs of War Project recently reported, Donald Trump’s bizarre war in Iran, in part by closing the Strait of Hormuz, has already cost every American family on average more than $300 (and those
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Consider it strange. As a boy, I couldn’t have been more of a sports fan and the Brooklyn Dodgers were my special baseball team. (I could probably still tell you, position by position, the starting lineup of the 1956 Dodgers.) I remained a fervent fan when they left for Los Angeles and, a few years later in 1962, my first year in college, the New York Mets came to town. And
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Hey, at a moment when Donald Trump has gone to war with Iran, this country has a secretary of defense — oops, my mistake! — of war who, in the past, has called for nothing
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Sometimes, Donald Trump just doesn’t get the credit he deserves. In so many ways, he is indeed a record-setting president. Here’s just one example, as reported by Dave DeCamp of Antiwar.com. In early May, the U.S. military bombed Somalia for the 63rd time this year, putting it on course to break last year’s record-setting 124 air attacks on that country.
I’ll bet you
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Hey, the news was already so good in 2025 that the Trump White House put up a “welcome to the Golden Age” post at its website, and things are so magnificent that it’s still there! It said, in part, “Under President Donald Trump’s
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Hey, Donald Trump’s war with Iran is proving to be a genuine bargain! According to the Department of War (once upon a time the Department of Defense), it has cost us a mere $25 billion. (Or
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As the war in the Strait of Hormuz was going into its eighth week and a third U.S. aircraft carrier was heading into the region (part of a fleet of 19 U.S. naval vessels there and seven