“Americans can no longer afford to underwrite a government that does not work. A condition of quasi-permanent crisis stretching across generations has distorted our Constitution with near-disastrous results. To imagine at this juncture installing some fresh face in the White House, transferring the control of Congress from one party to another, or embarking upon yet another effort to fix the national security apparatus will make much of a difference is to ignore decades of experience.”
— Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.
