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September 2017

An Enemy You Can Depend On: Trump, Pershing’s Bullets, and the Folklore of The War On Terror

by paul.kramer September 11, 2017

Foreign Affairs, September 11, 2017 This essay, adapted from an article published in Foreign Affairs, explores the origins of the legend used by Donald Trump to justify torture and war crimes against terrorists: that Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing had Muslim prisoners in the Philippines shot with bullets dipped in pigs’…

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^{Paul Kramer writes and teaches U. S. history from transnational, imperial and global perspectives as an associate professor at Vanderbilt University.}

^{Paul is the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, co-founder and co-editor of Cornell University Press’ series The United States in the World. He is currently writing books on the practice of transnational history, and on connections between American foreign relations and U. S. immigration policy across the 20th century.}

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