quagmires

To catch Bacevich discussing how the U.S. military became specialists in quagmires in a Timothy MacBain TomCast audio interview click here or, to download it to your iPod, here.

Andrew Bacevich: The Long War: Year Ten Lost in the Desert with the GPS on the Fritz Andrew Bacevich 2010

So an officer corps once intent above all on avoiding protracted wars now specializes in quagmires.

Andrew Bacevich: The Long War: Year Ten Lost in the Desert with the GPS on the Fritz Andrew Bacevich 2010

I have no need to go into any detail regarding their remarkably similar obsession with Vietnam; and how all military conflicts involving the US--in which we acted out of our own national interest, rather than as part of the UN--instantly (usually within days) become Vietnam-like "quagmires" and are examples of the immoral warmongering of (almost always) Republican presidents.

Archive 2009-01-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

It's a bit beyond my expertise, but one thought comes to mind when I hear Iraq compared to Vietnam or other "quagmires".

July 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

It's a bit beyond my expertise, but one thought comes to mind when I hear Iraq compared to Vietnam or other "quagmires".

July 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

It's a bit beyond my expertise, but one thought comes to mind when I hear Iraq compared to Vietnam or other "quagmires".

July 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

It's a bit beyond my expertise, but one thought comes to mind when I hear Iraq compared to Vietnam or other "quagmires".

July 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

It's a bit beyond my expertise, but one thought comes to mind when I hear Iraq compared to Vietnam or other "quagmires".

~ Angry Bear 2003

It's a bit beyond my expertise, but one thought comes to mind when I hear Iraq compared to Vietnam or other "quagmires".

July 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

Cheney was central to America descending into the various quagmires we now struggle as a nation to free ourselves from.

New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012 2009