Tyrannical on 27 January 2009
If you think you have appendicitis, you need to get to the hospitol NOW!
If it bursts, you are looking at two weeks in intensive care hooked up to tubes detoxifying your blood. Assuming it doesn't kill you.
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
