Tyrannical on 30 April 2009
| akuma587 said: So...the people and the government can't enter into a contract that they will not do certain things, including things to people who aren't citizens? That doesn't make any sense. |
Look, if you are actually paying to go to law school ask your prof that question. It's called a social contract. What parties is that social contract between?
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
