Book Review: ‘Reign of Terror’ by Spencer Ackerman

Ackerman guides us through the next two decades, showing how any prospect of national unity in response to 9/11 was bent under the inconsistency of subsequent wars, which he said was “conceptually doomed” from the start. Their eternity was a source of deep instability, as one conflict (with Iraq) spawned another conflict (with ISIS). Ackerman …