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Patrick J. Buchanan was a senior advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and three times ran for president. His most recent book is Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.
America is as overextended as the British Empire of 1939. We have commitments to fight on behalf of scores of nations that have nothing to do with out vital interests, commitments we could not honor were several to be called in at once. We have declared it U.S. policy to democratize the planet, to hold every nation to out standards of human rights, and to “end tyranny in our time.” And to show the world he meant business, President Bush had placed in his Oval Office a bust of Winston Churchill.
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