American Footprints

Some of the more curious disconnects between rhetoric and reality in recent memory surrounded the myriad justifications for the Iraq war which included the ubiquitous and self-satisfying ”democracy promotion” and “liberation” narratives.  The problem was that the self-styled do-gooders urging on the expenditure of large quantities of blood and treasure in the ostensibly moral cause of liberating Muslims were frequently the same folks that harbored deep-seated anti-Muslim biases.  There was [...]