Tyrannical on 02 February 2010
We are unsure how long a nuclear warhead is viable due to natural radioactive decay of the warhead. Since we don't test nukes anymore and have to rely on computer simulations, they remake them just to make sure they do go off.
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
