Tyrannical on 09 April 2009
The Amazon Live store charges $49.99 for 13 month subscription, while amazon.com charges $38.99. It's useless to me because I only buy point cards on sale anyways.
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
