Tyrannical on 16 February 2009
Isn't Castro the elected President of Cuba? How long until Chavez outlaws anyone running against him like Castro?
Saddam Hussein was elected with 99.9% of the vote his last election. Not sure if the .1% was brave, stupid, or just dead.
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
