Tyrannical on 30 April 2009
Perhaps. I didn't buy a 360 until I had an HDTV.
But a game console that puts an HDTV to good use is a huge draw, and I wouldn't be happy with low res graphics on my HDTV.
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
