When President George W. Bush announced the invasion of Iraq in a somber televised address from the Oval Office, most Americans could not have expected that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq 20 years later. HistoryAsItHappens podcast
and historian Andrew Bacevich of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft contend that the war’s disastrous consequences have been memory-holed. Rather than questioning the fundamental assumptions underpinning U.S. hegemony, they contend even most Americans who recognize the war as having been a mistake have simply moved on.
“There has been a willful determination to forget and put the unpleasant memories behind us,” said Mr. Bacevich, a professor emeritus of history at Boston University. Ms. Lutz pointed to the fact the U.S. defense budget continues to grow despite decades of failed foreign interventions. “It is very frustrating to see the Pentagon budget increase dramatically over these past 20 years … the capture of our federal budgeting process by those powerful [defense contractors] has resulted in such misplaced priorities. We are really now a nation made by war, made for war.
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