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Podcast: The Darrell McClain show
Episode: War Drums and Digital Chains
Description: Send us Fan MailWarning signals flash while America looks away. Lieutenant General Daniel Bolger—who previously admitted our defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan—now cautions that drone strikes across the Horn of Africa are quietly pulling us into another protracted conflict. Yet this crucial warning receives barely a whisper of attention as media cycles fixate on culture wars and celebrity feuds.This pattern is deliberate. We escalate military involvement just enough to keep operations off evening broadcasts, creating conflicts by contract rather than declaration. When body bags eventually come home, civilians wonder how we got...