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“This will stop only when the American people get fed up”: American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama

“This will stop only when the American people get fed up”: American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama

May 22, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our smartest modern military historian explains to Salon what’s wrong about our adventures in the Middle East Part one of my interview with Andrew Bacevich, the soldier-turned-scholar who has just published “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military…

“The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire

“The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire

May 15, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The brilliant Andrew Bacevich tells Salon why our massive march to folly in Middle East has to be seen as one war I first interviewed Andrew Bacevich, the soldier turned scholar, after he spoke at the Hope Club, an old-line…

“Where is the public outcry for an explanation of how the longest war in American history is on a course to end in failure?”

“Where is the public outcry for an explanation of how the longest war in American history is on a course to end in failure?”

July 3, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The brilliant foreign policy theorist Andrew Bacevich tells Salon how American exceptionalism makes matters worse. Andrew Bacevich has been a singular critic of American foreign policy since he began publishing on the topic 13 years ago. His second book, “American…

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