Tyrannical on 14 October 2009
Spanish / American war should have been the last one the US was involved in.
We had no business getting involved in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan. We should have just sat peacefully in our country, and let the rest of the world fall apart.
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
