Tyrannical on 04 December 2008
Except for the spending Christmas money during early January, console sales are pretty dead the first few months of the new year. If you wanted a new expensive toy, chances are you picked it up for Christmas.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
