The article says that people have already created alternative reasons for foreign policy in the Middle East. One of those reasons is oil, but many find those reasons inadequate. The main reason stated in the article for foreign policy is to show off American military power. In the article, Bacevich talks about how freedom has undercut the United States’ ability to fulfill its commitments. Later in the article, he says that freedom in the United States is a reason to fight the long war to preserve the American way of life. I don’t think there is a way out of forever wars because most countries, when in their in wars, won’t give up. So most countries will fight to the death and if its a back-and-forth war, its just going to continue until one loses the war.
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Will Wright 
I liked everything that you had to say about the article and thought you did a great job summarizing the points. I agree with what you said about forever wars about how it is very hard to get out of them because so many countries don’t want to give up. We have seen many times throughout history that countries don’t want to lose and will stay in a war even longer than they probably should most times to try to give as good of a fight as possible. It also makes it hard to get out of when these wars also are over controlling the power of oil and other resources because that can be very important to the economic success of a country.
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