{"id":36729,"date":"2021-01-16T10:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36729"},"modified":"2021-01-17T19:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:52:31","slug":"enough-already-time-to-end-the-war-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/16\/enough-already-time-to-end-the-war-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote another book,\u00a0Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Advance Praise for Enough Already<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you only read one book this year on America\u2019s unending \u2018War on Terror,\u2019 it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United States created the original al Qaeda terrorism threat by its own actions and then increased that threat by orders of magnitude by its wanton killings in one country after another in the name of \u2018counter-terrorism.\u2019 Once I started reading it, I couldn\u2019t stop!\u201d \u2014 Daniel Ellsberg,\u00a0Pentagon Papers<\/em>\u00a0whistleblower and author of\u00a0The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has fueled the abuse of government power in the last 20 years like the \u2018War on Terrorism.\u2019 Scott Horton\u2019s essential new book,\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>, is the key to understanding why it\u2019s not too late to end the wars and save our country. Three administrations in a row have promised us a more restrained foreign policy. It is time we insisted on it.\u201d \u2014 Ron Paul, M.D., former congressman and author of\u00a0Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWith outstanding scholarship, research and analysis, Scott Horton\u2019s new book,\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>, lays bare the logical absurdity and self-defeating nature of America\u2019s permanent-war establishment. It might have taken its title from a line in the book\u2019s introduction: America\u2019s war policy since at least the Carter Administration has been \u2018a policy in search of a reason.\u2019 As Horton painstakingly lays bare, in virtually none of the military conflicts the United States has chosen to fight in since the 1970s was our security ever genuinely threatened. His ultimate solution is the only one that has any chance of preserving American security and giving us a chance to be ready in case we do face a genuine threat in the future: end the pointless and self-defeating forever wars. All of them.\u201d \u2014 Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, USA (Ret.) four-time combat deployer, two-time winner of the Bronze Star and author of\u00a0Eleventh Hour in 2020 America: How American Foreign Policy Got Jacked Up and What the Next Administration Can Do About It<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is it! Finally, we have a comprehensive, rigorously researched, beautifully written and unassailable argument to stop the \u2018endless wars\u2019 that virtually no Americans outside the foreign policy establishment want to continue. There is no better time for this book to appear and no better person to write it than Scott Horton, who has been the people\u2019s foreign policy expert for decades. If you want to save lives, buy it, read it and share it.\u201d \u2014 Thaddeus Russell, professor of history and philosophy at Willamette University and author of\u00a0A Renegade History of the United States<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI finished reading\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>\u00a0the same week I had to attend the funeral of a sailor from one of my Iraq deployments. He killed himself leaving behind a wife and three boys. Nothing in this book is simply historical or abstract to tens of millions of families. Scott Horton has written an incredible accounting of the wars of the last twenty years. This book should be used to hold accountable those who purposefully committed these crimes and to remember the generations of Iraqis, Afghans, Somalis, Yemenis, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Libyans, Iranians, Syrians, sub-Saharan Africans and Americans whose lives have been forever damaged and destroyed.\u201d \u2014 Capt. Matthew Hoh, USMC (ret.), former senior State Department official, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy<\/p>\n

\u201cScott Horton is one of the best informed and hardest hitting critics of the War on Terror. His new book is a gold mine for anyone seeking to learn about the frauds and failures of U.S. foreign policy.\u201d \u2014 Jim Bovard, columnist at\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u00a0and author of\u00a0Public Policy Hooligan<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cScott Horton\u2019s book courageously investigates the deception that is the \u2018War on Terror.\u2019 It provides an impressive and wide-ranging examination of the misguided and costly U.S. foreign policy decisions which led to morally indefensible, strategically useless and militarily catastrophic interventions and wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the world.\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>\u00a0must be read by every American who cares about the future of his country because the cost of these imprudent wars has proven detrimental to the nation\u2019s moral compass, global reputation, economic well-being and, indeed, national security.\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>\u00a0is an eloquently written book. Using accessible language, exhaustive research and indisputable arguments, Horton\u2019s latest volume is a damning and impassioned case against war.\u201d \u2014 Ramzy Baroud, editor of Palestine Chronicle and author of\u00a0These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cScott Horton has put together a devastating, deeply-researched account of how the U.S. war system betrayed the American people\u2019s trust in carrying out the so-called \u2018War on Terror.\u2019 He shows convincingly that it actually served other objectives and represents an unforgivable treachery that has inflicted incalculable harm on the United States. Readers across the entire deeply divided U.S. political spectrum will find truth in it that they can trust.\u201d \u2014 Gareth Porter, Martha Gellhorn Award-winning journalist and author of\u00a0Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cScott Horton is a walking encyclopedia of U.S foreign policy, and he has managed to chronicle the entire history of the government\u2019s meddling in the Middle East in this well-written and important volume.\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>\u00a0explains why still today the U.S. government continues to bomb countries at its caprice, long after the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001, attacks have disappeared.\u201d \u2014 Laurie Calhoun, author of\u00a0We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFool\u2019s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan<\/em>\u00a0was by far the best single account of the Afghan mire. Yet Afghanistan is only one of the conflicts unleashed by the U.S. and Western interventions in the \u2018War on Terror.\u2019 Scott Horton has now given us\u00a0Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism<\/em>, a masterly history of these chaotic, tragic and above all futile conflicts, ranging with his usual excoriating accuracy from Mali to Pakistan, from Iraq to Yemen by way of Libya and Syria. Millions are dead, disabled or languish desperately far from their homes as the direct result of our blunders, bewilderment and outright malicious stupidity. Thousands of our own soldiers have died or are disabled. Hundreds more of our citizens have died in the U.S. and Europe in what Horton calls the \u2018backdraft\u2019 of our disastrous actions. Ignore the self-serving memoirs or grandiose academic tomes; if you read only one book on the so-called \u2018War on Terror,\u2019 this must be that book.\u201d \u2014 Frank Ledwidge, former Royal Navy Reserve intelligence officer, \u201cJustice Advisor\u201d to the UK Mission in Afghanistan\u2019s Helmand Province and author of\u00a0Investment in Blood<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States must end its foolish empire building. In\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>, Scott Horton clearly demonstrates the dangers of following those that profit from the deaths of American service men and women fighting in undeclared and endless wars. We cannot wage conventional war on an unconventional enemy. Enough Already!\u201d \u2014 Sgt. Dan McKnight, Idaho Army National Guard (ret.), Afghanistan war veteran, founder and chairman of BringOurTroopsHome.US<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no better title for Scott Horton\u2019s ambitious new book than\u00a0Enough Already<\/em>\u00a0because honestly, those are the two words that floated through my head the entire time I was reading it. U.S. foreign policy for the last 20 years has been an endless parade of regime changes, useless attempts to \u2018fix\u2019 our blunders, extra-legal killing and detention, and military interventions that have made troubled states failed states. It never ends. Whether it be our destruction of Iraq, the illegal drone wars, JSOC manhunting or Hillary Clinton\u2019s last stand in Libya, Scott has expertly harnessed mountains of detail here in a compelling narrative that underscores what a rotten mess the War on Terrorism has become. More importantly it shows that no matter how righteous the mission to go after the 9\/11 perpetrators seemed at the time, the American government has managed to twist those goals into something perverse and ultimately more dangerous to the world than the 19 hijackers who changed everything that fateful day. The book is grim but persuasive, and a must read for anyone who is interested in learning how we got to this place two decades later.\u201d \u2014 Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, senior adviser at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and contributing editor at\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote another book,\u00a0Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. Advance Praise for Enough Already \u201cIf you only read one book this year on America\u2019s unending \u2018War on Terror,\u2019 it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United States created the original al Qaeda terrorism threat by its own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaeda","category-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36736,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729\/revisions\/36736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}