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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Bacevich discusses the diminishing returns of America's 
 long-held foreign policy of expansionism, the dangers of rampant 
 consumerism at home and a imperial executive president.\n\n\nDebt And The 
 New American Exceptionalism\n\n"As America’s efforts to “degrade and 
 ultimately destroy” Islamic State militants extent into Syria, Iraq War 
 III has seamlessly morphed into Greater Middle East Battlefield XIV. That 
 is, Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that 
 U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed, and in which American 
 soldiers have killed or been killed. And that’s just since 
 1980.\n\nLet’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 
 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), 
 Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), 
 Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 
 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew." ~ Andrew J. Bacevich, 
 Washington Post\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"After 9/11, the United States launched a 
 military effort vaguely intended to pacify or democratize or otherwise 
 “fix” the Greater Middle East, thereby supposedly reducing the Islamist 
 threat emanating from that quarter. Based on the outcomes achieved in Iraq 
 and Afghanistan that military effort must rate as an utter failure. Indeed, 
 if anything, wars waged in the Islamic world only serve to exacerbate the 
 sense of angry alienation felt by at least some Muslims residing in the 
 West. War is making matters worse.\n...\nAs for the West’s ongoing war in 
 the Islamic world, surely the time has come to acknowledge its futility. 
 The application of military power will not change “them.” At best, it 
 may be able to protect “us.” The central tenet of US military policy in 
 the Islamic world should be to butt out, and the sooner the better.\n\nWe 
 have arrived at a teachable moment. Whether we will learn what that moment 
 has to offer remains to be seen." ~ Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston 
 Globe\n\n\nThe American Exceptionalism Sweepstakes\n"Andrew Bacevich 
 explains how our ‘empire of consumption’ contains the seeds of its own 
 destruction and why our foreign policy establishment in Washington is 
 totally incapable of coming to grips with it.” ~ Chalmers Johnson, author 
 of the Blowback Trilogy\nPodcast source: YouTube: The Limits of Power and 
 the End of American Exceptionalism\nRadioactive Risks From Fracking 
 Waste\n\nNew techniques allow companies to extract oil and gas from deep in 
 the ground, but as Matt Richmond of WSKS and the Allegheny Front tells 
 Steve Curwood, naturally radioactive rocks above the Marcellus shale in the 
 eastern U.S. can create a dangerous waste product.\nPodcast source: living 
 on earth: Radioactive Risks From Fracking Waste\nAmericans Are Disappointed 
 About The Economic Recovery\nScott Horsley reports on a survey by Rutgers 
 University that found two out of three Americans felt no improvement in the 
 last year. Only about one in four expect things to get better in the year 
 to come.\nPodcast source: npr: Survey: Americans Are Grumpy About Economic 
 Recovery\nDownload or Play American Exceptionalism Part 1Download or Play 
 American Exceptionalism Part 2Download or Play American Exceptionalism Part 
 3Download or Play Radioactive Risks\n\nMusic includes Black Eyed Peas Ft 
 Justin Timberlake - Where Is The Love, Peacesong - Enemy Me, Capitol Steps 
 - I Like Big Cuts And I Cannot Lie, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - What If 
 We All Stopped Paying Taxes, Capitol Steps - Monster Cash, The New Lost 
 City Ramblers - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, Terry 
 Gangstad - Make Money, Mamavibe - Reggae Vibration, Capitol Steps - Look 
 Away, Roy Zimmerman / Sandy Riccardi - My Conservative Girlfriend,  Capitol 
 Steps - Newt Newt Newt Goin' Out My Back Door, Larry Estridge - Spirits of 
 the Revolution, The Producers(Movie) - Springtime for Hitler, The Beatles - 
 Your Mother Should Know, Ira Newborn - Police Squad, Also Sprach 
 Zarathustra - 2001 A Space Odyssey\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/12/18773388.php
SUMMARY:The Limits of American Exceptionalism
LOCATION:Stream or download at http://greatspeechesandinterviews.blogspot.com/ 
 \n\nBroadcast at Access Sacramento, Sundays 6-8pm PDT at KUBU 96.5 FM and 
 at http://www.live365.com/stations/accesssacramento?site=pro\n
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