Riz Khan - Imperial Presidency - Nov 18 - Part 1

Riz Khan speaks with Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. He argues that the US has developed an over-reliance on military power, as opposed to diplomacy, to achieve its foreign policy aims.

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[covertcovenant]

You have a rash for life?

[psrdirector]

No its people like you who are ruining america, go back to your cave

[BrosaJarlen]

What he says at 10:15 is the most important thing in this video.

[BrosaJarlen]

People that express themselves the way YOU do, are the ones that belong in a cave.

[psrdirector]

your an idiot

[somethingawful01]

What I find funny is how North Korea is called a dynasty while the US is called a democracy. Obama and Bush are related so the people of the US 'voted' another Bush into power, instead of 'voting' for Bush's friend. This is the ridiculous stupidity that governs the US and is bringing the country to its knees. Zionists rule the country and all those who have any intentions of achieving anything have to bow to their will, rule and power.

[jove04]

1) America went to Iraq because Zionists wanted to divide Iraq and the region's large countries into small manageable governments. All for Zionist Israel and to control the oil of the world.

2) America went to Afghanstan to encircle Iran both from Iraq and Afghanstan and to control the Caspian sea oil to Europe.

America wanted to hand over the big Middle East to Zionists and the oil fields for itself but failed in both cases.

Now American Zionists are destroying the country from within.

[sugarpuddin88]

Gimme a break!

The American people have lost all but no. 3 of their Bill of Rights --- And didn't object!

America has got to be the dumbest country on the planet! Do they put some sort of chemical in your water to lobotomize the citizens?

[condonrichard]

The human experience is the common denominator. I look into myself and my experience and look for that in me which may be in others. I (a European-American, middle-aged, raised in affluence) see greed, fear, etc. expressed differently elsewhere. But we are all alike.

[teemuruskeepaa]

The question I want raise is what is the common denominator. All systems that have social division have in fact a predatory ideology, nothing like progressive rationality of the Enlightenment. All capitalist systems are in every level the same as the top level, structure conveys the ways of thinking to people, who the elite have never met. And no system that is fair can have by definition people who fight it.

[afrircans1970]

REMEMBER THIS IS NOT A SINGLE PERCEPTION REALITY.

IF WE HAVE PEOPLE DEMANDING WE "AID" COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT AS WELL OFF AS THE USA

(FOREIGN AID TO AFRICA, AS AN EXAMPLE) Thus we will continue to have the element of "Imperialism" as a core ideology (however that may be opinionated).

When we HAVE decided to remain uncommitted, we have many elements calling us to stop "Isolationism".

This is a complex issue: sound bytes don't do it justice.