The War Comes Home at the Pump: Iran, Expensive Fuel, and the Hidden Domestic Cost of Empire

By Michael Harrison There is a familiar pattern in American politics: wars are planned in Washington, justified on television, and paid for by people who had no role in choosing them. The bill rarely arrives with the Pentagon’s logo on it. It arrives at the gas pump, in delivery fees, in grocery prices, in airline tickets, and in the quiet anxiety of households trying to stretch one paycheck…