Every once in a long while, I run across somebody who really “gets it”… a person who sees the whole picture of what’s going on in the country and understands how the pieces all fit together. The last time was Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a speech which I transcribed for a previous post. And now it’s, Andrew J. Bacevich, a self-described conservative who is a teacher, political expert, and former US Army Colonel. The interview runs nearly an hour, but it’s really worth watching.

And thank goodness for Bill Moyers, the former Washington insider who has found his place as the only television journalist to consistently host these kinds of thinkers. If you regularly watch any mainstream news, you owe it to yourself to occasionally balance out the hype-machine with an hour of The Journal.