{"id":10073,"date":"2014-06-22T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T02:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2014-06-22T22:53:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T02:53:50","slug":"why-us-hard-power-failed-in-iraq-and-elsewhere-bill-moyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/22\/why-us-hard-power-failed-in-iraq-and-elsewhere-bill-moyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why US hard power failed in Iraq and elsewhere | Bill Moyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outstanding. Military historian <a href=\"http:\/\/s-usih.org\/2011\/07\/andrew-bacevich-and-american-agape.html\" title=\"USIH: Andrew Bacevich and an American Agape\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Bacevich<\/a> sums up the stupidity of US foreign policy and how repeated failures could be rectified. He exposes the &#8220;duplicity of ideologues&#8221; on calls for intervention in Iraq and discusses the moral responsibility to the people of Iraq. What can be done to alleviate the suffering of the people in Iraq? &#8220;There is remarkably little discussion as to cost if you want to bomb someone, but we suddenly become acutely cost-conscious if there is a proposal to assist them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chaos in Iraq\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98693864?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney [at 06:00] in 1993, answering a question on the first Gulf war, predicted what would happen if Iraq was invaded: &#8220;&#8230;Once you take down Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government in Iraq, then what are you going to put in its place? If you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily see pieces of Iraq fly off&#8230;..it&#8217;s a quagmire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Projection of hard power by the US has not solved global problems over the last 50 years. In fact it has exacerbated problems in the Middle East. Soft power is far more effective. But it needs a change of mind-set on the part of the US. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. You still need Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s &#8220;big stick&#8221; as a deterrent, but soft power &mdash; engineers, doctors and school teachers &mdash; are far more effective at winning people over to your world-view than B52s and unmanned drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outstanding. Military historian Andrew Bacevich sums up the stupidity of US foreign policy and how repeated failures could be rectified. He exposes the &#8220;duplicity of ideologues&#8221; on calls for intervention in Iraq and discusses the moral responsibility to the people of Iraq. 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