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The Political Crisis

Published on Feb 07, 2018

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The Political Crisis

Chapter 2: Bacevich
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1940-

Checks and balances out the window?
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Jeremy Suri

On the Power of the Presidency
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Imperial Presidency

Has Congress ceded authority?
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Quest to Stay in Office

Partisan advantages, gerrymandering, and political pork
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9-11 and National Security: Four Failures

  • Failure to anticipate
  • ... to bring justice
  • ...fight islamic extremism
  • Iraq and Afghan wars
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Iraq War: Why?

  • President Bush
  • Nefarious lieutenants
  • Cabal of neoconservatives?
  • Problem was inherited.
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US Foreign Policy Ideology

  • History
  • Freedom
  • Agent of Liberty
  • Freedom must prevail...everywhere
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Reinhold Niebuhr

Public theologian and the 20th century story
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"No simple victory of good over evil in history is possible." -Niebuhr

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Power elite

Misinterpret reality and inflate threats
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Rise of the National Security Apparatus

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US National Security

Doing more harm than good?
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Kennedy

Bay of Pigs: (1) CIA hype and (2) Joint Chiefs overrated
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Bush and Rumsfeld

Keeping the national security apparatus out of the way
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Bush Techniques

  • Marginalize parts of machinery deemed troublesome
  • Install loyalists
  • Circumvent entire structure if needed
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Case for dismantling apparatus

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Wise Men Without Wisdom

Then and now
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Paul Nitze
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Nitze's Responses to Russia

  • Isolationism
  • Preventive War
  • More rapid build-up of American Power
  • Economic value of war?
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Nitze Doctrine

  • Demonize America's Adversaries
  • Transform trivial into serious threats
  • Analyst to become de facto decision maker
  • Sow panic to drive policy making process
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Wolfowitz and Bush

Anticipatory Self Defense and the end of War Avoidance
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Looking back

1940s view of war, 1950s, and now

Carolyn Meyer