Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Branko Marcetic
“There is good news and bad news for critics of the United States’[s] bloated 21st century war machine. The good news: the ‘war on terror’ is dead. The bad news? It seems to have become a part of the walking dead — a kind of zombie war on terror that is continuing and radically expanding, even as the fears and threats that originally motivated all its excesses are seemingly vanishing from the American psyche. Consider the following facts: despite the public release only a few years ago of evidence showing the Saudi government’s direct complicity in the crime of September 11, 2001 — the central, instigating act of terrorism that drove and justified every aspect of the ‘war on terror’ that followed — associating with or even taking money from that same government appears to carry no stigma.” (10/14/25)