Posted on 05/16/2007 9:18:38 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A renowned professor and prominent critic of the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq has now lost his son to the war. Lt. Andrew Bacevich, Jr. was killed by a suicide bomber on Sunday.
A local Boston station reports that the younger Bacevich's captain said in an e-mail to the family that he was killed by a suicide bomber in a white sedan his unit had stopped on a main highway south of Samarra.
The DoD's official release of the incident reported on Monday that, "1st Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich, 27, of Walpole, Mass., died May 13 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit during combat patrol operations in Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq."
Andrew Bacevich, professor of International Relations at Boston University, has a long list of publications supporting his self-label of conservative, but he became disillusioned by what he viewed as an overreliance on military power driving foreign policy choices by "conservative" neocons of the Bush Administration.
In a conversation discussing his latest book, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, Bacevich responded to a question asking if the neocons "believed too deeply in the hype of American hyperpower?," with the interviewer clarifying, "Ruling groups, even while manipulating others, often seem to almost hypnotically convince themselves as well."
That's why I myself tend not to buy into the charge that Bush and others blatantly lied us into this war. I think they believed most of what they claimed.
(Excerpt) Read more at iraqslogger.com ...
“Katy Bacevich, 22, one of the soldier’s three sisters, recalled her brother as a born leader who answered a calling to serve his country. Andrew Bacevich joined the Army in July 2004 and had been stationed in Iraq since October with the Third Brigade Combat Team, First Cavalry Division.”
And Bacevich's son is?
Yes. Absolutely.
Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking.
You are a real douche.
“Unfortunately, the son paid for the sins of his father.”
You’re delusional.
“My response to that is to ask why he believes it is a bizarre delusion? Germany and Japan were rebuilt successfully after WWII and the USA has reaped tremendous benefits.”
If you truly don’t understand there’s a huge difference, then it’s obvious you know little about the Mideast. Not only is much of it more backwards than Germany and Japan were, but the way they think about most everything is just alien to us. Even the countries there that are considered “democracies” or more modern, are completely different from our view of things.
From your posts #35 & #36: I know stupid. And thats stupid.
Well, I'm certainly impressed with your intellect.
I wish I could say the same for yours.
"No" works pretty well for me, but apparently you'd prefer that people who voice their disagreement with the government's current policy lose a son or daughter.
If someone called the president a "poopyhead" would you settle for just crippling that person's child?
Are you planning to work for the defense or the prosecution? Jumping to conclusions like that won’t win any trophies.
Exhibit A. Post #98
I jumped to no conclusions. I don’t know if I buy his explanation.
Bless the Bacevich family, all of them.
Nicely said.....and so many seem to forget that Iraq is just part of the problem .....
So anyone who questions the Bush administration's decision to go to Iraq is a traitor?
Maybe you should read more closely - Bacevich has written that he does not believe that anyone lied.
Yes. Absolutely"
WTF? You cannot not possibly be that morally corrupt and empty!
Oops. Sorry. As I read down the thread more, I understand what you were saying. Please excuse my over reaction.
Bacevich is parsing. He is saying that Bush convinced himself that what he was saying was true - even though it wasn't in Bacevich's opinion - and that therefore Bush was not technically lying because he told falsehoods that he believed were true.
It's the most convoluted form of "Bush lied" out there, but it is what it is.
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