Tag: George W. Bush

Nostalgia For George W. Bush

Comedy writers David Sirus and Bob Powers get nostalgic for the Bush administration, Trump’s commitment to ignoring the truth, John Lewis, repealing Obamacare, the message Democrats should be sending to working class voters and Bill Kristol.

Then Jenny Rowland on her latest article How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.

Jenny is the Research and Advocacy Associate for the Public Lands Project at Center for American Progress.

Then Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to discuss Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, General Mattis, and tells us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.

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Andrew Bacevich

Andrew Bacevich

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.

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