Tyrannical on 26 August 2009
"The man went back to the teens house, requested his money back, and after the teen declined, he took him for a ‘ride.’"
Well, I hope he learned not to rip people off in the future. Next time he might wind up dead.
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
