I watched a riveting interview tonight. Riveting. Superb. If you didn't catch it, please don't miss this one. And please pass it on. No matter what your age, your politics, your religion, your race, your socio-economic standing, or where you live - there is a deeply important and uniting message here that goes beyond any of our differences. I watched it tonight with my elder friend, Maija, and we were transfixed. Few have summed up so much in such a short time. Amazing. And profoundly important. Profoundly.
From Bill Moyers website:
As campaign ads urge voters to consider who will be a better "Commander in Chief," Andrew J. Bacevich — Professor of International Relations at Boston University, retired Army colonel, and West Point graduate — joins Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL to encourage viewers to take a step back and connect the dots between U.S. foreign policy, consumerism, politics, and militarism.
Please go here for a video or transcript of tonight's Bill Moyers Journal interview with Andrew J. Bacevich: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html.
For more on Mr. Bacevich's new book, please go here: http://us.macmillan.com/thelimitsofpower. Or here: THE LIMITS OF POWER Read an excerpt from Bacevich's new book THE LIMITS OF POWER: THE END OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM.
Andrew Bacevich is a West Point graduate, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, and an amazing human being. My grandfather, West Point graduate Class of 1910, would be enthusiastically applauding this Mr. Bacevich for his great courage and integrity and the power of his message. I am so grateful for his wisdom. May we all listen.
“In this utterly original book, Andrew Bacevich explains how our ‘empire of consumption’ contains the seeds of its own destruction and why our foreign policy establishment in Washington is totally incapable of coming to grips with it. Indispensable reading for every citizen.”—Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback Trilogy
“In The Limits of Power, Andrew Bacevich delivers precisely what the Republic has so desperately needed: an analysis of America's woes that goes beyond the villain of the moment, George W. Bush, and gets at the heart of the delusions that have crippled the country's foreign policy for decades. Bacevich writes with a passionate eloquence and moral urgency that makes this book absolutely compelling. Everyone should read it.”—Mark Danner, author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
Bacevich begins his new book, THE LIMITS OF POWER: THE END OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, with an epigraph taken from the Bible: "Put thine house in order." - Andrew J. Bacevich
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