Against the worship of warmongering

He grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where his family still lives today. But since returning from the war, he has been moving back and forth between Washington and the South. In 2011—seven years after returning from Iraq—he finally settled in Savannah because he was afraid that there were too many Arabs on the streets in Washington or Northern Virginia. He sensed them everywhere, felt constantly surrounded by them. His past as a notorious expert in body searches and interrogations in American prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq fuels his fear that he is now threatened with retaliation from every corner.

His time as an interrogator, first at Bagram prison in Afghanistan and later, even more painfully, at Abu Ghraib—the most hellish place Damien Corsetti ever saw on earth—killed something inside him. “Abu Ghraib: If there ever was a bad place, it was that one. It was just death, fucking death. That place changed everyone who was there. Something cancerous was growing there.”

Excerpt from “War at Any Cost” by James Risen.

War at any cost, about greed, abuse of power, and the billion-dollar business of fighting terrorism.