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How the War on Terror Warped the American Left

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Richard Beck’s new book, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life , offers an exhaustive version of the story of fundamental depravity.

Beck 's book can be read by a young person who witnessed the collapse of the Twin Towers and the wars he began to see the United States as a kind of mafia boss.

Frida Ghitis : The War on Terror , particularly in its early and deadliest years , leaked into culture and society.

She says the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq made SUVs and Iron Man popular in the U.S. She says fear of terror shaped the American response to 9/11 , and explains many of the pathological excesses.

Ghitis says it doesn't excuse the rush to war in Iraq , but it does explain what happened in psychological terms that are human.

Richard Beck argues that terrorism is an economic grievance against a superpower that is unable to grow or spread the wealth but is also holding on to its position of dominance at all costs.

Beck presents it as revelatory, but it comes off as tedious, he writes.

Beck does not want to take ideology or religious radicalization into account; anyone who does so is racist.