An American World of War
What to Watch for in 2010


By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
January 3, 2010


According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin.

We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September 11, 2001 was that “warâ€