Washington Rules

SUBHEAD: "Obama doesn't have the guts to get out of Afghanistan" - Andrew Bacevich on America's perpetual war. Image above: Portrait of Andrew Bacevich from the Cornell Review artilce on 'The End of American Exceptionalism" (http://cornellreviewonline.com/?p=266). By Amy Goodwin on 2 August 2010 on Democracy Now! - (http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/2/andrew_bacevich_on_afghanistan_war_the) Retired US Army colonel and historian Andrew Bacevich joins us for his first interview about his new book, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. "The question demands to be asked: Who is more deserving of contempt?" Bacevich asks. "The commander-in-chief who sends young Americans to die for a cause, however misguided, in which he sincerely believes? Or the commander-in-chief who sends young Americans to die for a cause in which he manifestly does not believe and yet refuses to forsake?" Video above: Democracy Now interview with Andrew Bacevich. From (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10xwgQmEZM8). See also: Island Breath: The New American Militarism 5/24/06 Interview with Andrew Bacevich .

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