Tyrannical on 18 April 2009
| The Ghost of RubangB said: Tyrannical, you keep insulting akuma but ignoring his point. Destroying the Constitution to protect the Constitution is just as crazy as seceding from the Union to protect the Union. |
The US constitution gives rights and privalleges to US citizens, not to enemy combatants.
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
