http://www.truthout.org/bill-moyers-interviews-andrew-bacevich/1306971684Thursday 2 June 2011
by: Bill Moyers, The New Press
Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal.
"Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues" is the Truthout Progressive Pick of the Week.
Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war exacts. They know better than anyone that force can be like a lobster trap that closes with each stage of descent, making escape impossible. So it was when the liberal consensus lured America into Vietnam during the ’60s, and again after 9/11, when neoconservatives clamored for the invasion of Iraq. With the notorious ferocity of the noncombatant, the neocons banged their tin drums and brayed for blood, as long as it was not their own that would be spilled.