Sep 25, 2013
Andrew Bacevich is the author of "Breach of Trust: How Americans
Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country." Professor
Bacevich is a retired colonel, a Vietnam combat veteran and a West
Point graduate. He is a former director of Boston University's
Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005) and author
of several books, including American Empire: The Realities and
Consequences of US Diplomacy (2002), The New American Militarism:
How Americans are Seduced by War (2005) and The Limits of Power:
The End of American Exceptionalism (2008). He has also appeared on
television shows such as The Colbert Report and the Bill Moyers
Report and has written op-eds which have appeared in papers such as
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston
Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Financial Times. He is also a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bacevich has been "a persistent, vocal critic of the U.S.
occupation of Iraq, calling the conflict a catastrophic failure."
In March 2007, he described George W. Bush's endorsement of such
"preventive wars" as "immoral, illicit, and imprudent."
Also Michael Snyder and Mark Thompson talk about Sunday's
Emmys.
