fmc83 said:
Wouldn't you prefer to live in a world where milk and honey flows, and everything is exactly how you like it to be? Well, guess what: There's a difference between imagination and reality. |
Well, if evolution was correct, wouldn't it justify racism or genocide? I seem to understand that homo sapien sapiens may have commited genocide against Neanderthal man, but I suppose that is just evolutionary progress. I suppose killing off the american indians was just evolutionary progress too. I suppose blacks living in the more backward part of Africa would be next on that list in the name of evolution.
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
