Tyrannical on 29 July 2009
I think Brian Lamb, founder of C-SPAN would make an excellent President.
His intelligence is unquestioned, he’s well liked among both political parties, and he has a sense of political and historical understanding that’s probably unmatched in.
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
