| yanamaster said: What's with the superiority complex Tyrannical? Sure that negotiations won't work with terrorists now, but if the US hadn't butted into the middle east all those years ago then todays history would've been vastly different. |
I'm sure a long history of European meddeling, colonialism, and the creation of Israel out of Palestine had nothing to do with the troublesome middleast situation of today.
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











