Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan that would last a mere 20 years until Donald Trump prepared for and Joe Biden carried out a humiliating withdrawal of the last American troops there, the U.S. is back big time, dumber and more wildly destructive than ever. Whew! That’s a lot of (terrible) history to get into a single sentence! And so, here’s a TomDispatch question for you: What four-letter country, the first three of which are IRA, has the U.S. now been bombing? No, not Iraq! That war began in 2003 and ended a mere eight years later in 2011. And remind me, how did that work out?” (03/29/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-worlds-most-unbelievable-science-fiction-novel/