War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 1
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
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🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Episode one of The Dig’s three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
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| 0:59.9 | University Press. |
| 1:09.9 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:14.0 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:18.9 | It's the 20th anniversary of 9-11, and so also, of course, the anniversary of the War on Terror that Bush declared soon thereafter. |
| 1:29.0 | Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every |
| 1:38.9 | terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated. |
| 1:47.9 | This is a three-part series on the War on Terror with journalist Spencer Ackerman, the author of |
| 1:54.0 | reign of terror, how the 9-11 era destabilized America and produced Trump. |
| 2:00.6 | The Forever Wars unleashed murderous violence and wrecked countries across the world, |
| 2:07.4 | very much including the United States. |
| 2:10.4 | This is episode 1, 9-11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush. |
| 2:17.7 | Look out for episodes 2 and 3, which will cover the War on Terror under Obama, Trump, |
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