So, say if someone commited murder during a botched robbery, was on video tape commiting the murder, identified by 50 eye witnesses, and was arrested at the scene with the murder weapon.
How many appeals would that person need? Or could you simple carry out the death sentence two weeks after the conviction?
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
