Professor Bacevich suggests that our arrogance only became unrestrained AFTER the collapse of the USSR. This ignores the crimes of our National Security State from the 1940's through the 1980's just prior to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the fall of the USSR in 1991. Consider the murderous regimes we set up in Guatemala and Iran in the 1950's, the creation of the Diem puppet regime under Eisenhower and all that led to for the next several decades, the assassination of Lumumba in the Congo in 1960 and our nurturing of the tyranny of Mobutu for the next 30 years in Zaire. Or consider our aid in the slaughters in Indonesia in the 1960's. Of course we then run into Kissinger and Nixon, whose crimes in Cambodia and Chile and whose Operation Condor imposed despotism throughout Latin America for several more decades. Then consider the discoveries and revelations of the Church Committee, followed up by Zbigniev Brzezenski's chess board strategy of creating Al Queda in 1979-1980, or William Casey and Reagan tormenting Central America and the Iran-Contra debacle. So our hubris and arrogance predates the fall of the USSR in 1991. After that Professor Bacevich seems to be more discerning about our foreign policy since 1991, but for him to suggest this arrogance and hubris only began after 1991 is itself an illusion that reveals an element of delusion in his own thinking, which is ironic given his concern in his book to disabuse Americans of their illuisons.
You pointed out some of Prof Bacevich's illusions, namely, the time frame for arrogance. Yet he is one of the supposedly truthtellers in the US. It shows how even honest scholars are trapped with their own illusion
Great to see Bacevich still in top form in 2020 delivering his clear and forceful analysis of the world situation. I don't know of any voice quite like his.
Agreed 200%. There may be a voice or two equally much people of sound mind and good reason, but none quite like his. Kind regards. When I listen and read him, I cannot help thinking of Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. War is a racket, pure and simple.
We said no to voting cuz its futile when our votes are manipulated and the choices are NO choices. Its pure theater. I always voted. No more. Its a form of revolt not too. Nothing changes for the better in my time.
Voting only works if there is someone worthy of the job. That makes the question this: why is our choice composed of a corruption chief and an incompetent Narcissist? Why are smart, capable men and women of character not allowed to be candidates to lead the country? The answer is that they cannot be controlled. The answer is that they don’t lead. The answer is that the notion that they lead is artifice. Chomsky nailed it.
@@rd264 I totally disagree. Voting had become the biggest mode of fraud used the make citizens believe the have a say, they definitely have no say. I watched the multiple ways cheating kept on happening in the last many elections. How has blue no matter who worked out for everyone? And no that doesn’t mean I voted for Trump.
Andy is a very sensible thinker. I have read two of his books - lots of reasonable ideas about how America can do so much better for itself and the world, without useless wars and a politics poisoned by money and partisanship.
In my humble opinion, people project their desires to be taken care of, onto Trump. "Make my life great." Coming to terms with our own mistakes is difficult, it's easier to project solutions and Hopes.
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Professor Bacevich suggests that our arrogance only became unrestrained AFTER the collapse of the USSR. This ignores the crimes of our National Security State from the 1940's through the 1980's just prior to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the fall of the USSR in 1991. Consider the murderous regimes we set up in Guatemala and Iran in the 1950's, the creation of the Diem puppet regime under Eisenhower and all that led to for the next several decades, the assassination of Lumumba in the Congo in 1960 and our nurturing of the tyranny of Mobutu for the next 30 years in Zaire. Or consider our aid in the slaughters in Indonesia in the 1960's. Of course we then run into Kissinger and Nixon, whose crimes in Cambodia and Chile and whose Operation Condor imposed despotism throughout Latin America for several more decades. Then consider the discoveries and revelations of the Church Committee, followed up by Zbigniev Brzezenski's chess board strategy of creating Al Queda in 1979-1980, or William Casey and Reagan tormenting Central America and the Iran-Contra debacle. So our hubris and arrogance predates the fall of the USSR in 1991. After that Professor Bacevich seems to be more discerning about our foreign policy since 1991, but for him to suggest this arrogance and hubris only began after 1991 is itself an illusion that reveals an element of delusion in his own thinking, which is ironic given his concern in his book to disabuse Americans of their illuisons.
You pointed out some of Prof Bacevich's illusions, namely, the time frame for arrogance.
Yet he is one of the supposedly truthtellers in the US.
It shows how even honest scholars are trapped with their own illusion
Great to see Bacevich still in top form in 2020 delivering his clear and forceful analysis of the world situation. I don't know of any voice quite like his.
Agreed 200%. There may be a voice or two equally much people of sound mind and good reason, but none quite like his. Kind regards. When I listen and read him, I cannot help thinking of Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. War is a racket, pure and simple.
We said no to voting cuz its futile when our votes are manipulated and the choices are NO choices. Its pure theater. I always voted. No more. Its a form of revolt not too. Nothing changes for the better in my time.
not voting is a like gagging yourself politically at the one and only moment you have to be heard....you are a political drop out if you dont vote.
@@rd264 chomsky is spot on when he says voting is pure pacification for citizens.
@@rd264 sounds to me youre completely brainwashed. A kind of Patti Hearst syndrome of sorts with your corporate masters.
Voting only works if there is someone worthy of the job. That makes the question this: why is our choice composed of a corruption chief and an incompetent Narcissist?
Why are smart, capable men and women of character not allowed to be candidates to lead the country?
The answer is that they cannot be controlled. The answer is that they don’t lead. The answer is that the notion that they lead is artifice. Chomsky nailed it.
@@rd264 I totally disagree. Voting had become the biggest mode of fraud used the make citizens believe the have a say, they definitely have no say. I watched the multiple ways cheating kept on happening in the last many elections. How has blue no matter who worked out for everyone? And no that doesn’t mean I voted for Trump.
Andy is a very sensible thinker. I have read two of his books - lots of reasonable ideas about how America can do so much better for itself and the world, without useless wars and a politics poisoned by money and partisanship.
In my humble opinion, people project their desires to be taken care of, onto Trump. "Make my life great."
Coming to terms with our own mistakes is difficult, it's easier to project solutions and Hopes.
This was so good up until the end where true colours and projections come out.
Which part exactly.
Thankful for the heads up
Manhattan instute
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