How 9/11 Led to a 'Reign of Terror'

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Forever War. It may be gone from Afghanistan but it’s not gone from our hearts. Our minds. Our souls. The body politic is riddled with the consequences of the last twenty years of conflict. The Department of Homeland Security is my go to. The first half of my life it didn’t exist. Now I am faced with the consequences of its disastrous policies on a daily basis.

With us today is Spencer Ackerman. Ackerman is a journalist and war correspondent who has spent his entire career reporting one the Forever War. His new book is Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. It’s an excellent book. It has the feel of a journalist stopping midway through a career turning behind them and asking “What the fuck just happened?”

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0:00.0	Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature
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0:25.0	Frankly, that seems to be the problem.
0:31.0	Welcome to Angry Planet.
0:34.0	Hello, and
0:37.0	Hello and welcome to angry planet. I'm Matthew Galt and I'm Jason Field.
0:47.0	Ah, the Forever War. It may be gone from Afghanistan but it's not gone from
0:51.8	our hearts, our minds, our souls.
0:55.2	The body politic is riddled with the consequences of the last 20 years of conflict.
0:59.2	The Department of Homeland Security is my go to.
1:01.8	The first half of my life, it didn't exist. Now I am faced with the consequences of its
1:05.7	disastrous policies on a daily basis. With us today is Spencer Ackerman. Ackerman is a journalist and war correspondent who has spent his entire career reporting on the Forever War.
1:15.0	His new book is Reign of Terror, how the 9-11 era destabilized America and produced Trump.
1:22.0	It's an excellent book. It has the feel of a
1:24.6	journalist stopping midway through their career turning behind them and asking
1:28.2	what the fuck just happened? Spencer, thank you so much for joining us.
1:33.0	Hey, thank you guys so much for having me.
1:35.0	All right, so you've been on quite a few podcasting shows.
1:40.0	You've been on Seth Myers, you've been on the Chris Hayes podcast on MSNBC. I have to know. Has anyone asked you to explain why Michelle
1:49.9	Malcolm bullied Duncan Donuts over something that Rachel Ray did.
1:55.0	Thank you very much for reading through to the acknowledgments of the book.
1:59.6	This is very much a kind of Brown M&M's in the writer moment seeing seeing who stuck with it to be
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