Comments on: Andrew Bacevich

By: informed bidding

informed bidding — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:52:23 +0000

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By: Manuel - Domestic Energy Assessor

Manuel - Domestic Energy Assessor — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:23:17 +0000

No offence but when are they going to do something about it? It’s a disgrace.

I know some have good intentions but doubt that the ones on top are there for anything else than pure interest.

By: Marycatherine Barton

Marycatherine Barton — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:13:11 +0000

You are right about all of the above facts. A hawk president would thus rule.

By: Sandy Kelson

Sandy Kelson — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:52:07 +0000

Re: Dept of Peace.

The US has departments of Labor, Environment, Mine Safey, Occupational Safety, etc. The president appoints its members who historically have done the bidding of those supposedly regulated. Environment protects the polluter, MSHA and OSHA protects the employer. An appointee to the Dept of Peace would do the bidding of the president. When this appointee would say, “There is no peaceful solution, war is necessary,” the peace movement will be co-opted. The non-engaged public will villify the peace movement saying the dept of peace has spoken. If I were Bush, I’d set up such a department immediately. The only way to get peace is to create a culture of peace. There are no quick fixes as I hope those who worked to elect democrats to congress last election learned. Further, Bush just appointed a war hawk to the US Institute of Peace

By: Marycatherine Barton

Marycatherine Barton — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:43:50 +0000

It is really disheartening to live among countrymen who have been raised to indeed be “seduced by war”. The Honorable Dennis Kucinich is the only member of Congress who has proposed that there be a federal Department of Peace.

By: warren

warren — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:25:29 +0000

great show. very informative. i liked the comment that the neocons can’t attack iran….but alas the neocons are lunatics and congress is bought and paid for. i hope he is right though.

By: hardtruth

hardtruth — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:44:05 +0000

The discussion of the sanitised Pro-US 1958 film of “The Quiet American” (which I haven’t seen) makes me wonder if Shrub and/or his speachwriters’ otherwise “unaccountable” appeals to the literary work were informed by the first movie version rather than familiarity with the book.

By: Druthers

Druthers — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:28:31 +0000

When Professor Bacevich says he thinks the Army Generals will speak out is he taking into account the shift to Naval and Air operations that seem to comprise the major part of the administration’s plan to attack Iran?

If this is the plan, couvert operations and forces not yet engaged in combat would provide the attack force. Would other high commanders speak up?