Tyrannical on 21 March 2009
When the morning headlines read "Poison gas leak at factory, 500,000 Palestinians in West bank Feared Dead", then I'll beleive you. Until then, I think they avoid civillian casualties.
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
