Yeah, I did the classic Phoenix objection with finger pointing. Then "the evidence clearly shows" tapping hand motion.
I then went back to the judges seat and played with the gavel some more. I expected a much nicer and fancier gavel though. There wasn't even a wooden block to hit with it. Maybe since all of the judges travel to different courts, they bring their own special gavel with them.
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
