On June 8, Juan Cole, one of the few true Middle East experts in the US, posted a short entry on hisInformed Comment blog. The title said it all: “We misunderstood Barack: He only wanted the domestic surveillance to be made legal, not to end it”. But domestic surveillance was far from the only Bush policy that Obama has wanted to continue, despite giving supporters the opposite impression. The continued – if reduced – use of indefinite detention is one example, the continued – vastly expanded – use of drones is another, and underlying them all is the continued self-defeating policy of fighting a global “war on terrorism” – but debranding it, because the term “war on terror” has become toxic, and renaming it makes it harder to oppose, writes Paul Rosenberg.

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