Tyrannical on 14 January 2009
| Jackson50 said: I am not surprised by this story. Americans have an inordinately high percentage of citizens who are "very proud" to be Americans. In most polls, the higher percentages are usually the British and the Japanese who average around 55% of citizens who are "very proud" to be their respective nationality. With Americans, the percentage who are "very proud" to be Americans is approximately 80%. |
Hey, if you're not a proud American, then GTF out.
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
