How Empires Fall: Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War »

Posted By hyperbola 1 year, 1 month ago in Arts & Entertainment

A new book that will infuriate the fake conservatives who inhabit the Republican Party documents how British self-righteousness, delusion, and hubris destroyed both the British Empire and Western ascendancy in two unnecessary wars launched by a small cabal of morons that ruled Britain. America is now on a similar path to destruction.

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    GWHayduke1 year, 1 month ago

    FTA - "In the closing pages Buchanan shows how the Bush Regime has broken from the sound policy of President Reagan and is replicating the British folly of self-destruction. "There is hardly a blunder of the British Empire we have not replicated," laments Buchanan."-

    This from a conservative in the traditional sense, not one of the new fangled sycophantic Republikans.

    There is an Everest of evidence that points to the outright bungling, intentional obfuscation and mismanagement of policy (both foreign and domestic) that this administration has managed to pull off right in front of a willing populace.

    The time has come to pay the proverbial piper in terms of - diplomacy, environmental stewardship, economic development and conservation - all of which will be intertwined in the "New World Order".

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      berkeley1 year, 1 month ago

      buchanan and roberts are correct: it is already too late to undo the damage. the only remaining drama is in how soon the change will become obvious.

      however the important question is what "we" will do afterwards.

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