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Pete PedersenAndrew J. Bacevich argues that pragmatic realism has always been the core of American foreign policy.
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For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors
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The ethic of self- gratification has firmly entrenched itself as the defining feature of the American way of life. The point is neither to deplore nor to celebrate this fact, but simply to acknowledge it.
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the fact is that Americans are no longer masters of their own fate
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saddles us with costly commitments abroad that we are increasingly ill- equipped to sustain while confronting us with dangers to which we have no ready response
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To quench their ardor, Americans looked abroad, seeking to extend the reach of U.S. power. The pursuit of "fresh gratifications" expressed itself collectively in an urge to expand, territorially and commercially.
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the enterprise launched on July 4, 1776. The hardheaded lawyers, merchants, farmers, and slaveholding plantation owners gathered in Philadelphia
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They founded a republic. Their purpose was not to save mankind. It was to ensure that people like themselves enjoyed unencumbered access to the Jeffersonian trinity.
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not nearly as frequently as we like to imagine, some of the world's unfortunates managed as a consequence to escape from bondage
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Crediting the United States with a "great liberating tradition" distorts the past and obscures the actual motive force behind American politics and U.S. foreign policy
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our whole national history has been one of expansion." TR spoke truthfully
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one overriding aim: enhancing American influence, wealth, and power
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28 Sep 08
dewarmacleodFresh Air from WHYY, September 11, 2008 ยท Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University and a retired Army colonel, discusses his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.
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14 Sep 08
beth gourleyAndrew J. Bacevich argues that pragmatic realism has always been the core of American foreign policy. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fstory%2Fstory.php%3FstoryId%3D94505191
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For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors
-
The ethic of self- gratification has firmly entrenched itself as the defining feature of the American way of life. The point is neither to deplore nor to celebrate this fact, but simply to acknowledge it.
-
the fact is that Americans are no longer masters of their own fate
-
saddles us with costly commitments abroad that we are increasingly ill- equipped to sustain while confronting us with dangers to which we have no ready response
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To quench their ardor, Americans looked abroad, seeking to extend the reach of U.S. power. The pursuit of "fresh gratifications" expressed itself collectively in an urge to expand, territorially and commercially.
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the enterprise launched on July 4, 1776. The hardheaded lawyers, merchants, farmers, and slaveholding plantation owners gathered in Philadelphia
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They founded a republic. Their purpose was not to save mankind. It was to ensure that people like themselves enjoyed unencumbered access to the Jeffersonian trinity.
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not nearly as frequently as we like to imagine, some of the world's unfortunates managed as a consequence to escape from bondage
-
Crediting the United States with a "great liberating tradition" distorts the past and obscures the actual motive force behind American politics and U.S. foreign policy
-
our whole national history has been one of expansion." TR spoke truthfully
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one overriding aim: enhancing American influence, wealth, and power
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13 Sep 08
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