Andrew J. Bacevich

“Rather than being tools of the state, multi-national corporations are now partners with the state.”

“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”

“A people with a shrinking span of attention will quite simply be unable to play a great part in history.”

“As a concept, the United States of America is an exceedingly persuasive proposition.”

“Regime change has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States.”

“Americans have a tendency to believe that because we are Americans, our actions are automatically benevolent.”

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

“For the United States, the global war on terrorism is a marginal enterprise.”

“War is a brutal, deadly, and dangerous business, and the U.S. military is the best in the world at it.”