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Showing videos filed under: andrew bacevich
Andrew Bacevich: Serious Thinking About US Military Action
April 29, 2011According to retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, Barack Obama "is a problem solver, he's surrounded himself with problem solvers at a time when maybe we need some creative thinking." This week saw the announcement that General David Petraeus would be taking Leon Panetta's spot as head of the CIA, while Panetta would be moving to replace Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.Andrew Bacevich; Sex, Hope & Rock'n'Roll, & Baratunde Thurston
April 28, 2011According to retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, Barack Obama "is a problem solver, he's surrounded himself with problem solvers at a time when maybe we need some creative thinking." This week saw the announcement that General David Petraeus would be taking Leon Panetta's spot as head of the CIA, while Panetta would be moving to replace Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.Andrew Bacevich: Sustaining Illusions of War
August 11, 2010U.S. militarism isn't limited to one president. "It is a pattern, it follows a trajectory, it derives from a set of habits and we need to understand them," Andrew Bacevich reminds us. This pattern has led us on a dramatically different course from the countries that experienced firsthand the wars of the 20th century--Bacevich notes that the U.S. and Israel seem to be convinced of the rightness of using force to accomplish goals.Vince Warren, Andrew Bacevich, and Philanthro-Feudalism
August 10, 2010President Obama was elected with fanfare and promises to restore the rule of law and accountability to the justice system, specifically around indefinite detentions at Guantanamo. But the upcoming trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen taken into custody when he was just 15, seems to belie those promises.Andrew Bacevich: The Bipartisan War Project
August 4, 2010War has become normal, and the wars we engage in have become open-ended enterprises, notes historian and best-selling author Andrew Bacevich. More importantly, our ongoing state of war is one that has been created by politicians from both parties, and our entire way of life in the U.S. is implicated in its creation.Inside BP Cleanup, Andrew Bacevich, and Valuing Teachers
August 3, 2010"Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less." That's according to "Martha," a hazardous waste worker in the Gulf, who joins us via Skype anonymously to report on the conditions workers are facing cleaning up BP's mess.Rethink Afghanistan: Pakistan
July 27, 2010With the release of the WikiLeaks "War Logs," more focus has been brought to the war in Afghanistan. But will anything change? Our friends at Brave New Films have been following the war there for years, urging Americans to learn more about the situation and what's being done in our names and with our tax dollars.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Reproductive Coercion, and Afghanistan
July 26, 2010New documents released by the site WikiLeaks provide an increasingly clear--and chilling--picture of the war in Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that the documents, released simultaneously by The Guardian, the New York Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel, as well as in full by WikiLeaks, are an example of "asymmetrical media," allowing the public to access the raw documents as well as the parts filtered by the traditional press.President Obama Please, No More American Centuries!
February 25, 2009Fifty years ago William Appleman Williams published his seminal book, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. Williams, one of the great chroniclers of twentieth century American history, explored the ideological roots of US foreign policy and the perils of American exceptionalism, despite the best of intentions. Today the fate of the US empire is far from certain.Home Defenders, The Foreclosure Crisis, and the End of American Exceptionalism
February 24, 2009Earlier this week the first activist in a civil disobedience campaign to resist foreclosure was arrested in Baltimore. We discuss the campaign. An interview with Olive Thompson who faces the threat of losing her home on Long Island. And Andrew Bacevich on the end of American exceptionalism.
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