Tyrannical on 18 December 2008
^----Technicaly not an appeal to authority falacy as the quotes are from authorities on the subject.
An appeal to authority falacy is when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject.
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
