A False Identity.

The United States has absolutely no power, what it has is money that allows it to portray the idea of having power with its paradox and hypocrite actions of trying to actually give freedom, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to, in reality, only people with money. In the first chapter of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Andrew J. Bacevich discusses the idea behind how far power can go. It may go as far as taking someone’s liberty to then offering it back after years of their expelled calories drenched in our dirt as a piece of evidence for our history. It has always been the one characteristic Americans have tried to acquire, but what is so suspicious about this power would be the contemporary Americans that try to acquire it and end up reaching now where near this idea that reflects the American Dream. Contemporary Americans can be broken down as thus far: CON-TEMPORARY as in a Convict imprisoned in a state of hypocrite and a Temporary life of unrealistic goals that they set themselves too.



The different powers are as follows: power over war, a variety of resources ranging from limitations to weaponry, success as a "leader", whatever that means to this country and then power by having a false identity. In this chapter one particular moment that sparks interest to the audience occurs when Bacevich states "from World War II into the 1960s, more power abroad meant greater abundance at home, which, in turn, paved the way for greater freedom". An explanation of the kind of freedom that was given in the 1960s with the use of power is a very specific topic that NEEDS to be explained to the American Society because the white people in America at that time weren't the one trying to give freedom; however, they were trying to take it. Black men, like Martin Luther King, that had some power actually stood for justice against racial segregation and with the help of William F. Buckley it has became true in the 1960s.The power of government can also be explained as just a hypocritical name, named after the governments sayings of how they will help other countries to be more advanced and be more modern but how can that happen if they forcibly take their important resources like weaponry and limited resources leading to the fact that they have a false identity.