The War on Terror Enabled Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism: IRREGULAR ARMY
Posted by Jacobin on May 15, 2026
"As the chief of CIA counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, my job after 9/11 was to locate and capture al-Qaeda fighters on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border. This wasn’t hard: they had no money, nowhere to hide, and no way to communicate securely, and they made mistakes. By the first week of March 2002, we had literally filled the jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan."