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davidswanson - Posted on 01 August 2010  By David Swanson
Andrew Bacevich's new book, "Washington Rules: America's Path to
Permanent War," is a good summary of the past 65 years' worth of
war thinking in Washington, D.C. "Prior to World War II," he
writes, "Americans by and large viewed military power and
institutions with skepticism, if not outright hostility. In the
wake of World War II, that changed. An affinity for military
might emerged as central to the American identity." For the past
65 years or so, Bacevich writes, these beliefs have been
Washington's "sacred trinity":   The people putting this
expansion of Manifest Destiny into practice, Bacevich writes,
have not fundamentally been presidents, as everyone believes,
much less Congress, as the Constitution would have had it.
"Pretending to the role of Decider, a president all too often
becomes little more than the medium throug