A Thinking Reed

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Bacevich on Moyers

Via Andrew Sullivan, here’s a great interview on Bill Moyers’ Journal with Andrew Bacevich on our foreign policy and what is, in his view, its underlying cause: our demand for an undending, fossil-fuel-dependent supply of consumer goods and our inability to practice self-restraint.

Bacevich’s new book, The Limits of Power, looks like a worthy sequel to his The New American Militarism.

4 responses to “Bacevich on Moyers”

  1. That was a great interview. Thanks for passing it along.

  2. The interview was really interesting. This is one we should be listening to.

  3. […] 18, 2008 by Lee If Andrew Bacevich is right that our consumptive habits are the cause, not only of resource depletion and environmental […]

  4. BTW, Bacevich was on Democracy Now recently: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/20/the_limits_of_power_andrew_bacevich

    I was impressed that a lefty program such as DN and a critical conservative such as Bacevich could find so much common ground.

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