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The other crazy war

By Rebecca Kaplan

THE UNITED STATES is bogged down in a costly, unjust, and ineffective war. The war was launched by a right-wing Republican president who claimed it was in response to a dangerous threat, but we now know the pretext was untrue.

The costs of the war have been rising constantly, with no evidence that it has accomplished anything. In fact, it has made the situation far worse. The Americans who are suffering the most under this war are disproportionately young people, people of color, and low-income people. Even those not directly caught up in the war are suffering from the financial devastation it’s wreaking on the country’s budgets. The war has also been used to justify a widespread loss of civil liberties that impacts all of us, and we’re all worse off from the costs to basic human decency the fear-mongering has sparked. MORE