On May 15, 2007, Andrew J. Bacevich received news that his son, First Lt. Adrew John Bacevich, had been killed by a bomb while on patrol in Iraq. As disheartening and as sad as this is, it seems to have only added to the views the author upholds. This grievous incident seems be what spurred on Bacevich’s need to write his books and tell America exactly what is wrong with it. In 2008, a year after the loss of his son, Andrew Bacevich published The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. This was a big step after The New American Militarism, a book he published in 2005. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/us/16prof.html)
Bacevish has actively and oppenly opposed wars for years, and now, with the loss of his son, it gives him the push he needs to dive head first into it. In the opening of The Limits of Power, he expresses to his readers that there is a triple crisis in America with the crisis problems being the economy, the government, and the nations’ nearly endless involvements in wars. Bacevich talks about profligacy, wastefulness of resources, being an issue to add to the aforementioned triple crisis. He claims that the one thing that threatens the well-being of America is something that is defined by profligacy: ethic …show more content…
The nation is sunk in debt and it is getting worse every time it sends soldiers to fight in a war that is not its own. He mentions that there are senseless deaths and loss of resource over situations that are not the country’s own. A lot of times, the waste from this does not even help the country and instead sets it back farther than it was before. Though Bacevich respects power and its limits, he claims that the country does not and tends to try and push them as far as they can go. This, a lot of times, comes with unintended consequences previously unforeseen or
Bacevish has actively and oppenly opposed wars for years, and now, with the loss of his son, it gives him the push he needs to dive head first into it. In the opening of The Limits of Power, he expresses to his readers that there is a triple crisis in America with the crisis problems being the economy, the government, and the nations’ nearly endless involvements in wars. Bacevich talks about profligacy, wastefulness of resources, being an issue to add to the aforementioned triple crisis. He claims that the one thing that threatens the well-being of America is something that is defined by profligacy: ethic …show more content…
The nation is sunk in debt and it is getting worse every time it sends soldiers to fight in a war that is not its own. He mentions that there are senseless deaths and loss of resource over situations that are not the country’s own. A lot of times, the waste from this does not even help the country and instead sets it back farther than it was before. Though Bacevich respects power and its limits, he claims that the country does not and tends to try and push them as far as they can go. This, a lot of times, comes with unintended consequences previously unforeseen or