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<title><![CDATA[Andrew Bacevich - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14704.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Andrew Bacevich]]></description><category domain="14704">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Break Its Addiction to Global Intervention]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/intervention-russia-ukraine-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington's preoccupation with Ukraine only testifies to the impoverished state of American strategic thinking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[20 Years Later: U.S. Humiliation in Iraq Was China&rsquo;s Gain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/and-the-winner-is/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: America's humiliation was China's gain.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Conflict Is Not About American Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-afghanistan-military-leadership/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington elites are ignoring history when they try to spin this war to restore faith in US leadership.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Robert Kagan's Selective Memory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/robert-kagans-selective-memory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to the journalist, Russia invaded Ukraine because the U.S. didn't get involved in enough global conflicts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We Witnessing the End of Thomas Friedman's B.S.?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ukraine-invasion-nothing-compared-iraq-afghanistan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin's aggression pales in comparison with the calamitous results of US involvement in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin's 'Wag the Dog' Moment?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-biden-putin-exceptionalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The people now gunning for a showdown with Putin were gunning for a showdown with Saddam Hussein two decades ago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with the same promises of a happy outcome.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Trump Have a Better Idea Than Endless Wars?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/does-trump-better-idea-endless-wars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump is clueless about how to translate his aversion to endless wars into anything akin to a plausible basis for policy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes Trump, Please End U.S. Era in Mideast]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/yes-trump-please-end-the-american-era-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Because people like Bret Stephens would keep sacrificing our men and women for a regional Pax Americana that never was.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran May Be an Enemy, But Saudi Arabia Is No Friend]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/iran-might-be-americas-enemy-but-saudi-arabia-is-no-friend/ar-AAHoh7m</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1987, an Iraqi warplane'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' attacked an American Navy frigate, the Stark,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on patrol in the Persian Gulf. Accepting Saddam Hussein'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s explanation that the attack, which killed 37 sailors, had been an accident, American officials promptly used the incident, which came at the height...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Ugly, Myth-Busting Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/andrew-bacevic-donald-trump-presidency-seven-myths/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In two years, President Trump destroyed the illusion of good governance that past administrations had been selling us for decades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Elites' Selective Support for Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/our-elites-selective-support-for-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hypocrisy on daily display in London and Washington of late has become difficult to stomach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When David Brooks' Dreams Don't Work Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-david-brooks-dreams-dont-work-out/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He thinks the answer is to return power to the morally high-minded establishment that created this mess in the first place.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Iraq Reckoning Still to Come]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/iraq-reckoning-article-1.3879224</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the 15th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, here's a fact worth contemplating: In the presidential election of]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Stalinism, Then and Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/american-stalinism-then-and-now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The left has readopted its 1930s purge-happy mindset, in spirit if not in substance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leave It to the Generals: Nonstrategy in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/145418/leave-generals-nonstrategy-afghanistan</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Win or quit, or win and then quit. When Donald Trump was a candidate for president last year, this pretty much represented his strategic menu of options for the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ongoing wars. Whichever way things went, they were going to change, though, and for the better. No more putzing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama: Anatomy of a Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9403672/barack-obama-anatomy-of-a-failure/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Has Forgotten How to Finish Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bacevich-failed-wars-20140112,0,5920178.story#axzz2qBUvtx1q</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz]]></title>
							<link>http://harpers.org/archive/2013/03/a-letter-to-paul-wolfowitz/?single=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Paul,I have been meaning to write to you for some time, and the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war provides as good an occasion as any to do so. Distracted by other, more recent eruptions of violence, the country has all but forgotten the war. But I won't and I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Leads a War He Doesn't Believe In]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/76091/non-believer</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a candidate for president, George W. Bush famously promised to pursue a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'humble'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' foreign policy. The events of 9/11'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for Bush akin to a conversion experience'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'swept humility by the board. The 43rd president found his true calling: Providence was summoning him to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memorial Day's Changing Meaning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bacevich-memorialday-20100531,0,2182274.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where I grew up in the Midwest during the 1950s and early '60s,  Memorial Day was no more about remembering the nation's war dead than  Labor Day was about honoring working stiffs. It was a "free day."  Falling on a Monday, Memorial Day made possible that great innovation,  "the long...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should Obama Go 'All In' on Afghanistan?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Sins of Omission]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/25/obamas_sins_of_omission/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE HISTORY of American liberalism is one of promoting substantively modest if superficially radical reforms in order to refurbish and sustain the status quo. From Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to Bill Clinton's New Covenant, liberals have specialized in jettisoning the redundant to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Triumphalism is Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bacevich26-2008oct26,0,7734562.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush's Third War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bacevich27-2008sep27,0,4559985.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Petraeus Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/petraeus-doctrine</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[9/11 Plus Seven]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080922/bacevich</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next President Will Disappoint You]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-bacevich24-2008aug24,0,1685703.story?track=rss</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia Gets Payback]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0815/p09s01-coop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Bush Hath Wrought]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07/01/what_bush_hath_wrought/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: The Right Choice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_24/article.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Bacevich</author>
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