| Rath said: Seriously? You're fearmongering, one of those people who make out terrorism to be a bigger threat than it is just so things like torture of detainees can go ahead. |
You're right. We made up all this terrorist talk just so we could torture some poor arabs for kicks.
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
