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This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?
Recently, in a podcast chat about our very different but somehow twin journeys through those wars, he and I got to thinking about what might have happened if our paths had crossed so much earlier. Both of us, after all, have been writing for
TomDispatch for years. As Bill once said to me, thinking about his post-military writing career, You know, Danny, in my small way I was trying and failing to stop the wars you were heading into.