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The Limits of Power: Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew Bacevich is a conservative historian who spent twenty-three years serving in the US Army. He also lost his son in Iraq last year. In a new book titled The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Bacevich argues that although many in this country are paying a heavy price for US domestic and foreign policy decisions, millions of Americans simply continue to shop, spend and satisfy their appetite for cheap oil, credit and the promise of freedom at home. Bacevich writes, "As the American appetite for freedom has grown, so too has our penchant for empire." [includes rush transcript]

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[danpt2000]

This is 2010. With the economic crisis gripping the U.S., the idea of American exceptionalism is now revealed to the entire world as a myth. The days of American politicians and demagogues lecturing other nations in how they should govern their country is ending.

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There are no visual content (other than occasional hand gestures) in these particular video series; so, this may as well be talk radio. In fact, I usually get these videos started and multitask while listening to this audio.

[ChanneloftheRepublic]

AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC NOT A FUCKING DEMOCRACY

[TheModelification]

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"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,"

[TheModelification]

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From Obama’s Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the {Muslims} should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' page 261.

From Obama’s speech in San Fransico:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," he said.

[TheModelification]

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father:

I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.'

[TheModelification]

1 /4 Obama’s Anti-American sentiment.

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating> myself to whites.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

[CaramelMarshmallow]

@girard1973 Please don't tell me you're talking about the Ground Zero mosque.

[girard1973]

@CaramelMarshmallow

True. But that is soon to end, as Americans continue their current mood.

[CaramelMarshmallow]

@gunnermac70 No, you're just stupid.