you've seen andrew bacevich at this table before. a west point graduate and vietnam veteran, he retired from the army after 23 years and is now an esteemed professor of history and international relations at boston university and a frequent contributor to publications both left and right. his book "the limits of power: the end of american exceptionalism" became a bestseller. "washington rules: america's path to permanent war" was a tough- minded critique of our bloated and costly national security complex. he's the editor of this new book of essays: "the short american century: a postmortem," recently released by harvard university press. andrew bacevich, welcome back. >> thanks very much for having me. >> the headlines from afghanistan get uglier and uglier every day. the rampage of that soldier, the burning of the koran, marines urinating on corpses, nato helicopters firing into and killing civilians, the corruption, and vast sums of corruption and the money that's passing through kabul. do you see these as isolated episodes, or a

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