what a country.........six wars........from asia times online...........Introduction by Tom Engelhardt ......
"With the latest news that the US has launched a significant "intensification" of its secret air campaign against Yemeni tribesmen believed to be connected with al-Qaeda, the US is now involved in no less than six wars. Count 'em, if you don't believe me: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and what used to be called the "global war on terror".
With the face of American war changing in striking ways and at least six wars, none going particularly well, on or off the books, no one should be surprised if, as retired air force lieutenant colonel and TomDispatch regular William J Astore makes clear below, Washington as a war capital increasingly looks like a new kind of town.
In anyone's book, that certainly qualifies as a working definition of "endless" war, but that doesn't mean endlessly the same kind of war. Let's look at this, war by war: ................read more here
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