Interview with Rachel Maddow

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has a new book entitled Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, and it examines the recent history of America's policy of perpetual war and the reasons behind it. It's a much different book than a regular viewer of her cable news show would probably expect in that it examines American militarism without any real touchstone to a partisan prism. Her argument is grounded in a truly excellent discussion of the Founders' views of war and the reasons they sought...