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Bacevich: Vietnam vs. Munich, and Creating an “Iraq/Afghanistan Syndrome”

August 3, 2010

Campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008, Senator Barack Obama said: "I don’t want to just end the war, but I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place." But as Andrew Bacevich notes in his new book, "Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War," as President, Barack…

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McChrystal’s 40,000 Troop Hoax

October 13, 2009

It’s a time-honored Washington tradition. If you want to bully the government into doing something unpopular and the public into accepting it, manufacture a false emergency. Iraq war? If you don’t approve it, mushroom cloud. Banker or IMF bailout? If you don’t approve it, financial collapse. Social security privatization? If you don’t approve it, the…

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Bacevich: Vietnam vs. Munich, and Creating an “Iraq/Afghanistan Syndrome”

McChrystal’s 40,000 Troop Hoax