Tyrannical on 28 April 2009
| mesoteto said: This is like saying, well yeah we burned down the house but that guy burned down the house and the garages so we are not as bad right? |
To put it in perspective, more like "My dog just pooped on his lawn, that other guy burned his house down."
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
