Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11
Robert Higgs’s real-time analyses of the United States’s response in the three-and-a-half years following September 11, 2001, show how America’s political leaders, in the name of crisis management, have discarded many of the checks and balances designed to thwart potential abuses of government power, spent billions more on programs unrelated to national security, trampled civil liberties and due process at home, and pursued reckless military adventures that have needlessly killed thousands of innocents abroad. This collection covers airport security, the costs of war, the decline of civil liberties, the lies of empire, the militarization of government, fiscal explosions, the nature of the military bureaucracy, and more.
Nothing has fueled the abuse of government power in the last twenty four years like the War on Terrorism. Scott Horton’s essential book, Enough Already, is the key to understanding why it’s not too late to end the wars and save our country. Three administrations in a row have promised us a more restrained foreign policy. It is time we insisted on it.
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