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Praise for The United States of Fear
Praise for The American Way of War
Praise for TomDispatch
Introduction
AMERICAN WARSCAPES
A World Made by War
Things That Go Boom in the Night
Warscapes
How the Movies Saved My Life
Chapter 1
THE UNITED STATES OF FEAR
Failed Bombs Do the Job
Taking Off the Gloves (and Everything Else)
You Wanna Be Safer? Really?
Welcome to Postlegal America
Pretzeled Definitions of Torture
On Not Blowing Whistles
Enhanced Legal Techniques
The 100 Percent Doctrine in Washington
Terrorism Tops Shark Attacks
Doctrines from One to One Hundred
Obama’s Bush-League World
A History Lesson from Hell
CT to the Horizon
Chapter 2
ENTERING THE SOVIET ERA
Washington Drunk on War
Boundless Military Ambitions
Military Profligacy
Creeping Gigantism
The Urge to Surge
Getting High in Afghanistan
Fever Dreams of Military Might
Osama bin Laden’s American Legacy
The Tao of Terrorism
Dead and Alive
Goodbye to All That
Abroads, Near and Far
Second-Wave Unilateralism
Our Financial Jihadists
Chapter 3
THEIR DEAD AND OURS
The View from Mount Olympus
Ceremonial Evisceration
Planetary Predators
Descending from on High
The Perfect American Weapon
Smoking Drones
A Pilotless Military
The Globalization of Death
Whose Hands? Whose Blood?
Killing Fields, Then and Now
Collateral Damage in America
One November’s Dead
Body Bags and Body Counts
A Premature Graveyard of American Inattention
Top Guns No More
The Valor of Pilots
Chapter 4
OBAMA’S FLAILING WARS
Obama’s Af-Pak Flip-Flop
Helpless Escalation
Pragmatism Goes to War
The Question Mark Over Afghanistan
Clueless in Afghanistan—and Washington
Forever War
More, Never Less
The Stimulus Package in Kabul
Singular Spawn or Forerunner Deluxe?
Simulating Ghosts
How to Schedule a War
Inflection Points and Aspirational Goals
On Ticking Clocks in Washington and Kabul
Flip of the COIN
Chapter 5
WAIST DEEP IN THE WASHINGTON QUAGMIRE
Numbers to Die For
A Reluctance to Leave
Vietnam and Afghanistan
A Brief History of American Withdrawal
Will Our Generals Ever Shut Up?
A Chorus of Military Intellectuals
Producing War
Cutting $100 Billion—Easy, If Only Washington Had a Brain
Dumb Intelligence Runs Rampant
Deep in the Big Muddy
Chapter 6
LIVING WITH WAR
Ballot Box Blues
Hermetic Systems and Mad Elephants
What Goes Up…
The Nuclear Story That Refuses to Go Away
Defining an American State of War
Chapter 7
IMPERIAL DECLINE
Living in the Fifty-First State (of Denial)
Can’t-Do America
One and a Half Cheers for American Decline
Imperial Denial Won’t Stop Decline
Life in the Echo Chamber
Five Ways to Be Tone Deaf in Washington
We’re Not the Good Guys
Signs of the Great American Unraveling
Idolater President
The Unreal War
Overstretched Empire
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
A Country in Need of Prozac
The Uses of Fear
China as Number One?
The Usefulness of a Major Enemy
The Unpredictability of China
A Revolutionary Tradition for the Ages
Afterword
ON BEING A CRITIC
All the World’s a Stage (for Us)
An Iraqi Tragedy
The Pride of Us
The Rectification of Names
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
About TomDispatch
About Tom Engelhardt
About Haymarket Books
Also from Haymarket Books
A Note about Footnotes
Copyright
