the-reaction.blogspot.com - 8/19/2008
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By Libby Spencer If you read nothing else today, read Bill Moyers' interview with retired US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich. Bacevich defines what's broken in our government, and our society, with a truly non-partisan slant that spares no one from blame. He notes that we're living on borrowed time, borrowed money and the debt is about to come due. When it does, it won't be pretty. ...
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Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers: Every sentence a gem
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Via Libby Spencer at The Reaction, the Moyers/Bacevich transcript. Here’s an extended excerpt, but go read the whole thing:
ANDREW BACEVICH: Our foreign policy is not something simply concocted by people in Washington D.C. and imposed on us. Our foreign policy is something that is concocted in Washington D.C., but it reflects the perceptions of our political elite about what we want, we the people want. And what we want, by and large - I mean, one could point to many individual exceptions - but, what we want, by and large is, we ...
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