{"id":1466,"date":"2010-09-13T23:45:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2010-09-20T21:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T01:39:41","slug":"washington-rules-americas-path-to-permanent-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2010\/09\/13\/washington-rules-americas-path-to-permanent-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Rules: America&#8217;s Path to Permanent War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/09\/basevich1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/09\/basevich1.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Bacevish at MIT  Sept. '10\" width=\"540\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/09\/basevich1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/09\/basevich1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to MIT to hear former U.S. Army Colonel and BU Professor Andrew Bacevich talk about his new book. I read his last book, <strong>The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism<\/strong>. It was somewhat encouraging to hear a man with a military background acknowledging the cost of empire. <strong>Wasington Rules<\/strong>, however, seemed much harder hitting. More as I ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to MIT to hear former U.S. Army Colonel and BU Professor Andrew Bacevich talk about his new book. I read his last book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. It was somewhat encouraging to hear a man with a military background acknowledging the cost of empire. Wasington Rules, however, seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}