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Through examination of the American government over the last 50 years, Boston University professor and retired U.S. Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich explains why the American way of living is wholly dependent on a neverending state of war. With America's global dominance slowly fading away, Bacevich suggests that focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan should come second to focusing on domestic issues.
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The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If...
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