Part I. 20th Anniversary of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq and its Legacy
Guest: Andrew Bacevich is president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A graduate of West Point and Princeton, he is also professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. Among his many books are The New American Militarism, The Limits of Power, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed, and most recently, On Shedding an Obsolete Past Bidding Farewell to the American Century.
Part II. Debunking the Conservative Arguments of the Right.
Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the editor of Current Affairs. He is the author of Why You Should Be A Socialist, and his latest, Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments.
Photo credit: An Iraqi woman yells at U.S. Army soldier in the West Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland) www.army.mil on Flickr.