Tyrannical on 23 January 2010
Never.
Most boys move on to "real" sports after age 12 and leave soccer behind. It's big in grade school but dead by HS. Unless your a girl, they still play soccer in HS.
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
