War-niks

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, West Point grad and former military officer Andrew Bacevich thinks Americans (right, left and center) have developed a tendency to 'go to war first, ask questions later.' In his new book, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War he traces the rise of the use of the military in responding to international conflict. Plus, the new Museum of Counterculture.

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