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Topic: The War on Terror

Fraklin Roosevelt signing the declaration of war on Dec. 8, 1941. (AP Photo)

Why America won't declare war

Matthew Fay
In this May 2004 photo, a group gathers around a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) weapon, on display at the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla. U.S. forces in Afghanistan struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 13, 2017, with a GBU-43B, the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said. (Mark Kulaw/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP) (AP)

Our experiment has failed in Afghanistan

Vijay Prashad - Alternet
(Reuters/Brian Snyder/AP/Ariel Schalit)

Obama was bad on drones — Trump is worse

Charlie May

Trump's military op kills 30

Charlie May
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Guantanamo; Donald Trump (AP/Evan Vucci/Charles Dharapak)

Chauncey DeVega
Spc. Angel Batista, 26, left to right, of Bloomingdale, N.J., Spc. Jacob Greene, 22, of Shreveport, La., and Sgt. Joe Altmann, 26, of Marshfield, Wisc., with the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment based in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, sit beneath a new American flag just raised to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Sept. 11, 2011 at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP/David Goldman)

9/11's endless aftermath

Bob Hennelly
(Reuters/Colorado Springs Police Department)

Jack Mirkinson
(Reuters/Larry Downing)

Jeb's big lie gets exploded

Sean Illing
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Inside the FBI terror charade

Andrew O'Hehir
(Reuters/Jim Young/Rebecca Cook/Photo montage by Salon)

No, W. didn't "keep us safe"

Sean Illing
Wesley Clark (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Time for internment camps?

Scott Eric Kaufman
Joseph McCarthy, Ted Cruz (AP/Bill Allen/Reuters/Joe Mitchell)

GOP's apocalyptic tradition

Conor Lynch
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Osama bin Laden (AP/Mazhar Ali Khan)

Another Bin Laden outrage

Marcy Wheeler

"Exceptionalism" a sick joke

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
(AP/Kevin Lamarque)

Birth of a shadow doctrine

Jens David Ohlin
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney (Reuters/Jason Reed)

Anand Gopal - TomDispatch.com
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