This is from The Week (September 19, 2008):
Bacevich argues that a generation-plus of profligacy at home is feeding reckless U.S. militarism abroad, and that neither trend is sustainable. “Tacitly, at least, the American people are complicit” in the wreckage created by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he says, because preserving the “American way of ife” has been the consensus goal. “But nothing is going to change” in the thrust of our foreign policy, Bacevich says, unless we are willing to make substantive changes in the way that we live.”
