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Andrew Bacevich on Obama foreign policy (video)

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Audio interview with ThinkProgress.org

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Wonk Room:  Bacevich: ‘The Only Way To Preserve The American Way Of Life Is To Change It’

Think Progress:  Bacevich: ‘I want to see President Obama explicitly abrogate the doctrine of preventive war.’

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Bacevich: ‘The Only Way To Preserve The American Way Of Life Is To Change It’

— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations at Boston University, has been one of modern American foreign policy’s most astute critics. In his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism , Bacevich questions ... (more) Bacevich: ‘The Only Way To Preserve The American Way Of ...

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Bacevich: ‘The Only Way To Preserve The American Way Of Life Is To Change It’
Wonk Room — Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations at Boston University, has been one of modern American foreign policy’s most astute critics. In his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Bacevich questions the dominant U.S. national security consensus which privileges the vigorous exercise of American military power in order to maintain “the American way of life,” arguing that neither of these things will be sustainable in the future. Think Progress/Wonk Room editor Faiz Shakir and I spoke to Prof. Bacevich about some of the issues and arguments in his book. Bacevich writes that the US ...

Bacevich: ‘I want to see President Obama explicitly abrogate the doctrine of preventive war.’
Think Progress — Earlier today, ThinkProgress interviewed Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations at Boston University who has been one of the most astute foreign policy critics of the Bush administration. (Bacevich’s son died while serving in Iraq.) In his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Bacevich challenges Obama to “go beyond merely pointing out the folly of the Iraq war” and “demonstrate that Iraq represents the truest manifestation of an approach to national security that is fundamentally flawed.” We asked Bacevich what he would like to see Obama say and do over the coming months: ...