title: Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism
author: Charles Pena
description: "A brilliant and incisive demolition of the misguided strategy that the
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  JOHN LE CARRÉ
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The United States Has Gone Mad
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This article was written in January 2003: two months before the UN refused to
  authorize Bush and Blair's projected invasion of Iraq. The United Nations had
  become a focus for the hopes of many opponents of the war. Yet in June 2004,
  the UN went on to endorse the occupation of Iraq in Resolution 1546. The
  Pentagon has now rebranded the War on Terror as the Long War, and America
  appears to be setting its sights on Iran. While the media recites mantras
  about spreading freedom and democracy in the Middle East, Washington continues
  to condemn those countries - Palestine, Venezuela, Iran - that elect anyone
  other than the US's preferred candidate. The United States is descending
  further into madness, unchecked by either the constitution or the electorate.
  In Britain, for as long as we have Tony Blair singing the same lies as George
  Bush, America's hallucinations and nightmares will be ours.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  