Tom Engelhardt | The Ultimate Blowback Universe, a Planet Boiling With Unintended Consequences




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A soldier watches oil wells on fire in southern Iraq. (photo: Getty)
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Washington created what was, in effect, a never-ending blowback machine. In those years, while the distant wars went on and on (and terrors of every imaginable sort grew in this country), the United States was transformed in a remarkable, if not yet fully graspable, fashion."
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