Andrew Bacevich at FFF Conference 2008, 2 of 5

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Part II: Political elites will keep the truth from Americans that we have got to stop the habit of using military force. Our "choice" of using "intervention" is unrealistic and unworkable because our "Freedom Agenda" or "democracy" cannot be "exported" in the way that we think. The larger issue is that the USA assumes that the Middle East is "maleable" or "ripe for transformation" by US forces. (But US has never really wanted to export democracy, only steal resources from other nations?)