The New Global War on Terror Memorial

Where is the monument to the victims?

Washington, DC will soon welcome another major memorial on the National Mall.  This one will be adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial.  What is it?  It’s the Global War on Terror Memorial(GWOT.)  This is despite the fact that there is a moratorium on new memorials on the National Mall.  It’s despite the fact that the so-called Global War on Terror is still ongoing.  And it’s despite the fact that federal lawsays that 10 years must pass from the end of a conflict until the beginning of construction of a monument to it. Perhaps most importantly, this new memorial will offer literally nothing in memory of the hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions—of innocent people in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, the Sahel, and elsewhere who were killed by American forces, bombs, and drones in that “war on terror.”