Tyrannical on 17 April 2009
Rainbird said:
Oooohhh, I get it! You're referring to the torture that happened all those 100 years ago, before Europe was democratic and before we all agreed on some basic human rights, right? Before modern civilization, right? |
Was WII all that long ago?
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
