President Obama spoke before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and spoke of trying to shift America away from what he called our “perpetual war footing.” Are these echoes of President Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex? Our guest is Andrew Bacevich author of “Breach of Truth: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers And Their Country.” This is an excerpt from The David Feldman Show.
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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The shocking role gun control laws have historically played in controlling African Americans. Adam Winkler is Professor of Law at UCLA and an expert on constitutional law. His book is entitled, “Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.” Also Michael Snyder stops by to talk movies.
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Professor Adam Winkler talks about the N.R.A. and whether it’s getting less powerful in this excerpt from David’s interview. Adam Winkler is Professor of constitutional law at UCLA. His book is entitled, “Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”
The hysterical Felicia Michaels stopped into the studio to talk about photography and her latest comedy projects with David and the enchanting Steve Skrovan.
Comics Felicia Michaels, Steve Skrovan and David Feldman in Studio D.
Jeff Ross, Andy Caploe, Jeremy S. Kramer, Paul Dooley, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Lauren Pritchard, Hal Lublin, Rick Overton, and Chris Pina. Plus Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys featuring Westy Westenhofer and John Presto Reynolds.. Today’s show is written by Frank Conniff, David Weiss, Andy Caploe, and David Feldman.
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