Andrew J. Bacevich on "U.S. Foreign Policy After Iraq" at the Future of Freedom Foundation's http://fff.org Restoring the Republic, 2008.
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.
Playlist of Bacevich's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B85B2A8E04D9EBD7
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?)
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