The Drone That Fell From the Sky
Commentary
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What a Busted Robot Airplane Tells Us About the American Empire in 2012 and Beyond
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Review: The Unraveling
Review / FPIF Picks Department
A new book on Pakistan looks at the thicket of problems in which the United States has become enmeshed.
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The Passing of the Postwar Era
Commentary
Sometimes, just when you least expect it, symbolism steps right up and coldcocks you. So how about this headline for - in the spirit of our last president - ushering America's withdrawal from Iraq right over the nearest symbolic cliff: "U.S. empties biggest Iraq base, takes Saddam's toilet." They're talking about Victory Base, formerly - again in the spirit of thoroughly malevolent symbolism - Camp Victory, the enormous American military base that sits at the edge of Baghdad International Airport and that we were never going to leave.
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The Complex is forever (at least as its managers see it). Despite modest rumblings in Washington about the Pentagon and intelligence budgets and the deficit, it"s not just considered too big to fail, but generally too big to question, and too deeply embedded to think much about.
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Target: Africa
World Beat
Al-Qaeda is having a near-death experience, so why is the Obama administration opening a new front against terrorism in Africa?
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Review: Patriot Acts
Review / FPIF Picks Department
A new book of oral histories gives voice to those who suffered from the curtailment of civil liberties after 9/11.
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A look at the news after the memorialization of 9/11 reveals an America that systematically attempts to erase its fingerprints from world events.
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