The US as a great warrior tribe

This is a very good article by Marwan Bishara, I'm really looking forward to part 2. Here is an excerpt to pique your interest:

"With the advent of 9/11 and the 'war on terror', anger, humiliation and fear nudged the US into wars of 'shock and awe', revenge, torture, and rendition - stripping their 'enemy-combatants' of their very humanity in far away prisons.
The politics of fear engineered by cynical racism and nationalism drove wars that have compromised traditional republican values and civil liberties just as its wars of choice undermined its 'social contract' and whipped US citizens into a collective frenzy.
In short, the United States of America, the most powerful and advanced liberal democracy, began acting as the most aggressive of all the world's tribes. And although much of this change was engineered by the Bush administration under the fog of the 'war on terror', Barack Obama's election has defused war criticism, diminished the 'peace movement' and once again united the country under the flags of war."
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