Tyrannical on 23 January 2009
| stof said: Anyways, his first two declarations are good, but mostly symbolic. Now when he closes Guantanamo... That's when he starts proving himself as a President. (I hope he does that damn soon) |
He needs to decide what he is going to do with the prisoners in Guantanamo first. That is the real hard Presedential decision. Maybe open up Camp Palin in Alaska?
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
