Is America Hooked on War? by Tom Engelhardt -- Antiwar.com

Is America Hooked on War? by Tom Engelhardt -- Antiwar.com: "Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it’s hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment. Similarly, we’ve become used to the idea that, when various forms of force (or threats of force) don’t work, our response, as in Afghanistan, is to recalibrate and apply some alternate version of the same under a new or rebranded name — the hot one now being 'counterinsurgency' or COIN — in a marginally different manner. When it comes to war, as well as preparations for war, more is now generally the order of the day."