In this program, Tucker led with the escalating tensions in Iran. He questioned how much stock we should be placing in intelligence officials currently describing the imperative of war if Iran continues to threaten our interests in the Middle East. How reliable are the people that brought us the Russian collusion hoax?
From the Quincy Institute, Andrew Bacevich, the author of "The Age of Illusions," joined Tucker and offered his view that, in all likelihood, we will not be removing troops from Iraq, which was requested by the democratic Iraqi Parliament that we have spent millions of dollars to prop up and for which thousands of American lives have been lost. For Bacevich, the decades of American adventurism in the Middle East have no tangible results. In his words, "we have broken" the Middle East.
The larger concept articulated by Bacevich is the deeply-engrained mindset that that the use of American military power will somehow solve problems. The flaw in that argument is that it hasn't worked. Because of the catastrophic consequences of our military engagement, the time has arrived to try diplomacy, as opposed to bombs.
In another segment of the program, investigative journalist Lara Logan chronicled a harrowing tale of rampant crime in Mexico. According to Logan, 98% of murders in Mexico are not even investigated. Drug trafficking plays such a role in in all sectors of Mexican society that, without it, the Mexican economy would simply collapse. Logan also described how the drug cartels are nothing like the old mom-and-pop style businesses, but rather conglomerates dealing internationally in a diverse range of criminal activities, including human trafficking, along with the mass production of drugs in the Mexican laboratories.
From the Quincy Institute, Andrew Bacevich, the author of "The Age of Illusions," joined Tucker and offered his view that, in all likelihood, we will not be removing troops from Iraq, which was requested by the democratic Iraqi Parliament that we have spent millions of dollars to prop up and for which thousands of American lives have been lost. For Bacevich, the decades of American adventurism in the Middle East have no tangible results. In his words, "we have broken" the Middle East.
The larger concept articulated by Bacevich is the deeply-engrained mindset that that the use of American military power will somehow solve problems. The flaw in that argument is that it hasn't worked. Because of the catastrophic consequences of our military engagement, the time has arrived to try diplomacy, as opposed to bombs.
In another segment of the program, investigative journalist Lara Logan chronicled a harrowing tale of rampant crime in Mexico. According to Logan, 98% of murders in Mexico are not even investigated. Drug trafficking plays such a role in in all sectors of Mexican society that, without it, the Mexican economy would simply collapse. Logan also described how the drug cartels are nothing like the old mom-and-pop style businesses, but rather conglomerates dealing internationally in a diverse range of criminal activities, including human trafficking, along with the mass production of drugs in the Mexican laboratories.