Title: Resurgence of the warfare state
Description: Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical pieces lambasts the highest officials in the executive branch for incompetence and moral blindness. Analyses of both wars and the crisis following 9/11 portray the conflicts as opportunities for special interests to entrench themselves in the U.S. government at the expense of U.S. citizens' civil liberties and tax dollars, and the lives of numerous Afghan and Iraqi non-combatants. Pulling no punches, this work holds George W. Bush and members of his cabinet accountable for acts that would have been prosecutable were the defendants in question not government entities.
Subjects: Politics and government, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, National security, Civil rights, Influence, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Causes, United states, politics and government, 21st century, Political aspects, Military relations, Postwar reconstruction, Iraq