Andrew Bacevich, a  _TomDispatch_ regular, is chairman and co-founder of the  Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His new Dispatch book,  _On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century_, has just been published_._ He is the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House_._