![]() ![]() ![]() To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. Neither Jefferson nor the other FoundĀers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers" its bloated Department of Homeland Security its rustĀing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. ![]()
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