Tyrannical on 14 November 2009
| MontanaHatchet said: Personally, I think the U.S. should just stop occupying countries altogether (unless they're an ally and it's a mutual protection thing), and just leave the rest of the world to its chaos. There are terrible dictators all over the world, and we lose trillions taking out a randomly picked assortment of them. Globalization is the most powerful tool in spreading democracy, so the United States should just focus on keeping its economy stable and paying off debt, so it can hold well in the global market. |
I, and my quote agree.
The Nazis made oil from coal duriing WWII, and we can do the same. Let the middle east keeps it's oil.
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
