Tyrannical on 14 October 2009
I used to date a Magyar years back, so I learned a few tricks. When she told me she was from Budapest, I asked her which side of the river, Buda or Pest. It's those little obscure facts that they'd never think you'd know that are a draw to the foreign girls.
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
