Americans may feel more distant from war, and yet the militarization of the U.S. and the strengthening of the National Security Complex continues to accelerate.
The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has long been a bragging point in Washington, even if it couldn’t officially be discussed directly before, say, Congress.
If Obama is the president of next to nothing on the domestic policy front, he has the powers previously associated with the gods when it comes to war-making abroad.