Additional reporting by Jesse Hicks and Joshua KopsteinIn the 1960s there was a saying: "Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?" We'll probably never know the answer to that drug-inspired American koan, but a recent book and documentary film sets out to answer a more important question: "What if they gave a war, but didn't tell anyone?"
Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill is a boots-on-the-ground document of the war on terror, as it's being waged everywhere on the planet, including Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The most telling aspect of this war is how it's fought in secret, by a White House seemingly taken by its own intelligence and awesome war-making abilities. Of course, this means that we have to really be able to trust the...
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