This type of foreign policy would assign soldiers “missions that are consistent with their capabilities.” Bacevich believes that this would benefit American citizens, and he reinforces this idea with worthy evidence. He starts by explaining how the American government ended the Cold War by supporting an Islamic extremist group. These extremists would later perform a terrorist attack on American soil on September 11, 2001, and it would lead to a years-long war in the Middle East that American soldiers are not capable of ending. The president at the time, George W. Bush, had to strike back somehow, but he did so with the idea that we could spread American ideals in the Middle East, and this plan has proven impossible. This example alone is excellent evidence of the final
This type of foreign policy would assign soldiers “missions that are consistent with their capabilities.” Bacevich believes that this would benefit American citizens, and he reinforces this idea with worthy evidence. He starts by explaining how the American government ended the Cold War by supporting an Islamic extremist group. These extremists would later perform a terrorist attack on American soil on September 11, 2001, and it would lead to a years-long war in the Middle East that American soldiers are not capable of ending. The president at the time, George W. Bush, had to strike back somehow, but he did so with the idea that we could spread American ideals in the Middle East, and this plan has proven impossible. This example alone is excellent evidence of the final