Tyrannical on 11 February 2009
Kids are spoiled these days with "afternoon cartoons". I remember when they had cartoons on Saturday mornings and that was it. Once a year on Friday prime time they would have a sneak peak of the new season's saturday morning cartoons.
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
