Nathan J. Robinson interviewing Osamah Khalil , the author of A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden “ You do something a little unusual in this book, which is hinted at in the subtitle. We are used to thinking about America's wars abroad and America's wars at home separately, in different domains. We talk about the history, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq, or we might talk about the war on drugs, but you put it all together and see it as one kind of unified history, domestic and foreign. Tell us why you think we need to consider America's wars as one category that includes domestic and foreign .” An interesting book, but it seems there is no grounding of 'domestic and foreign policy' in political economy, not even a section or a question in the long interview. Deindustrialisation and inequality, for instance, are part of the ‘domestic war’.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51