![]() ![]() “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda,” he told the US Congress in an address attended by Tony Blair, “but it does not end there. They were given an impossible task after the atrocities of 11 September 2001: to defeat terrorism itself, in a war that President George W Bush defined as having a limitless horizon. It has spanned several countries, with conventional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a mix of drones, special operations and air power from South Asia to North Africa.Īfter a cruise missile strike in Yemen, monitored through aerial imagery, one general used a term to refer to the tiny images of people fleeing the scene of an explosion: “squirters”. During that time, I became chillingly familiar with the ways that America has learned to kill people since 9/11. I worked in the White House for eight years under President Barack Obama. ![]()
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