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Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He is a fellow of the Nation Institute and runs TomDispatch.com. His sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War (Dispatch Books).

Afghan policeman aims at protesters by a burning police truck set alight during an anti-U.S. demonstration over burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, in Herat, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashim)

The final unraveling of Afghanistan?

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resident Barack Obama delivers speaks on the Defense Strategic Review, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, at the Pentagon (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Obama’s “mission accomplished” moment?

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U.S. Army Sgt. Omar Sprott, from Brooklyn, New York, of the 115th Brigade Support Battalion carries his luggage in preparation for leaving Camp Kalsu near Hillla, Iraq December 6, 2011. (© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)

It’s time to admit defeat

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When every year is election year

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A protester is wrapped in a blanket to stay warm at the Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

OWS’ Valley Forge moment

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Is the Pentagon commanding jihadis?

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Will military spending bankrupt the U.S.?

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Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami hold a banner during an anti-American rally through the streets of Karachi May 6, 2011

How to lose friends in the Middle East

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We’re stuck in Bush’s America

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President Obama delivers an address on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Does Obama idolize the military?

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U.S. President Barack Obama (from 2nd L-R) smiles as he names U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey his pick to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy Admiral Sandy Winnefeld to be the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and General Ray Odierno to be the new Chief of Staff of the Army in an announcement in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, May 30, 2011. Also pictured is Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L). REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) (© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Our new language of perpetual war

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How our irrational fear of terrorism is costing us

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There is no rule of law in America

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An unidentified U.S. soldier is seen at the scene of a suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Why can’t we learn from our mistakes in Afghanistan?

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An American flag is placed in a dirt-filled barrier outside the headquarters of 3rd Platoon, 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Divivion, at Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar July 22, 2010.

Osama bin Laden’s American legacy

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Why China may not be No. 1

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FILE - On this April 6, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party’s search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. In Iowa at least, there’s also widespread talk about Bachmann, who would be the first president elected directly from the House since James Garfield. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

Sleepwalking into the imperial dark

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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. Official says the TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

The worst that could happen in Japan

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An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Taking the “war” out of air war

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

What our Secretaries of Defense keep getting wrong

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks with Gen. David Petraeus NATO's top commander in Afghanistan during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden was in Afghanistan Monday for a surprise visit aimed at assessing progress in handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces, a key issue that comes against a backdrop of mounting concerns in the U.S. over the gains made in the nearly decade-long war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

All-American decline in a new world

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Afghan police men shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of damaged building of shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011. An explosion rocked a shopping and hotel complex on Monday, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The easy way to cut $100 billion

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Thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The protests, which saw tens of thousands of people massing daily in downtown Cairo for demonstrations that at times turned violent, have raised questions about the impact on the economy. More than 160,000 foreign tourists fled the country in a matter of days last week, in an exodus sure to hammer the vital tourism sector. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati) (AP)

Pox Americana

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In the crosshairs

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