As militant Islamic forces intent on the creation of a Mideast-wide theocracy sweep across Iraq with little or no resistance, the escalating bloodbath has triggered a renewed debate on how muscular our foreign policy must be. Andrew Bacevich, historian and combat veteran talks with Bill Moyers about what the crisis in Iraq tells us about America's role in the world. Many of the same neoconservatives who beat the drum of war in 2003 want to see boots on the ground in Iraq once again. Bacevich says that our policy in Iraq has "destabilized much of the greater Middle East while exacerbating anti-Americanism across the Islamic world." Andrew Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Bacevich is the editor of THE SHORT AMERICAN CENTURY: A POSTMORTEM and author of BREACH OF TRUST: HOW AMERICANS FAILED THEIR SOLDIERS AND THEIR COUNTRY. MOYERS & COMPANY is a weekly 30 minute series aimed at helping viewers make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America's strongest thinkers. The program also features Moyers hallmark essays on democracy.
