He (Trump) recognized that the 9/11 era's grotesque subtext - the perception of nonwhitesas marauders, even as conquerors, from hostile foreign civilizations - was its engine.引自第17页For those millions of Americans who demanded vengeance for 9/11, and then for the United States' compounded misfortunes in seeking it, the Forever War brought only the pain and humiliation of attaining neither peace nor victory.引自第19页The effect was to create a patriotic veil of unreality to conceal the damage done by and to America - particularly the self-inflicted damage. Long before Trump, the War on Terror revealed how the manipulation of reality and the normalization of atrocity would proceed. Trump brought aspects of the war home, but fundamentally the war was always home.引自第21页