Friday, August 27, 2010
The Education of Andrew Bacevich
This week's must-read is a very eloquent TomDispatch excerpt from Andrew Bacevich's new book Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War.
For Americans who had known Berlin only from a distance, the city existed primarily as a metaphor. Pick a date -- 1933, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1961, 1989 -- and Berlin becomes an instructive symbol of power, depravity, tragedy, defiance, endurance, or vindication.That there is some magnificent compression. Dang Army didn't teach him to write like that.
