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Andrew J. Bacevich
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Andrew J. Bacevich is the author of The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory .
Though significant, the end of the Cold War ranks well below the fall of Russia’s Romanov dynasty (1917) or the discovery of penicillin (1928) as a turning point in the history of the modern world.
In A Good American Family , the journalist and editor examines his father and mother’s youthful idealism and the bitter years of McCarthyism that followed.
It’ll take a president with more determination and consistency to put an end to our global crusade.
Many of the elites demanding accountability for Ukrainegate were reluctant to do the same for the architects of the Iraq War and the Great Recession.
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There’s already a historical precedent for ending a misguided war, American-style. Count on Washington to repeat its failures.
What would historians have to say about American society decades from now?
Recent remembrance ceremonies have been used to airbrush the US’s interventionist history.
Marseilles, Illinois, holds the only memorial commemorating the 8,000-plus soldiers who have died in the various US military campaigns throughout the Middle East.
In two years, President Trump destroyed the illusion of good governance that past administrations had been selling us for decades.
The media’s preoccupation with this administration’s scandals often distract us from more important matters—especially America’s never-ending wars.
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