16 years after 9/11, the "War on Terror" has yielded hundreds of
thousands of dead and injured Americans, Iraqis, and Afghans, ongoing
and intractable wars disguised as nation
building, the Patriot Act, illegal executive actions, trillions in new
federal debt, vastly increased federal surveillance powers, rubber
stamped FISA court warrants, TSA at the airports, a useless Department
of Homeland Security, overflowing VA hospitals, and increasingly
militarized police here at home. More importantly, it has yielded a
distressing complacency toward grotesque federal power.
It has not yielded peace, or liberty, or security. But liberty vs. security was never the choice.
