Retired Colonel--now Professor--Bacevich critiques the US's policy of constant military intervention everywhere. Includes a recent article by Bacevich ("Is America Coming to Its Senses?")--which is cautiously optimistic--and selections from a recorded interview.
Bacevich is the author of five books on US foreign and national-security policy. The most recent is "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War" (2010).
Interview segment courtesy of the radio series "Takes On the World" and host Jeff Blankfort. This series is archived on radio4all.net. The complete Bacevich interview is here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55140
Music courtesy of Skidmark Bob (popdefectradio.blogspot.com). Catch his "Decade War" audiocollage here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/54662
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