There’s this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

Kill one person and it’s murder; kill a million and that’s foreign policy.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The only way for America to remain a democracy is to forgo its foreign policy. Either its world strategy must become inward-looking or its political structure must become more centralized.

It would be helpful if the US would finally acknowledge its contributions to destabilization and regime change in the region. Doing so can help us change US foreign policy, trade policy, climate policy, & carceral border policy to address causes of mass displacement & migration.

Imperialism is still alive and well. You don’t have a military force of the size that the US this very moment has in the middle of the Arab world & call it ‘self-inflicted violence,’ it is imported from the outside.