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The New World Disorder

ko'regan Wrote: Aug 21, 2012 7:44 PM
Pat Buchanan should always be considered one of our premiere historians. While I often feel a bit nervous after reading his columns, there is no doubt 1: He knows what he his talking about and 2: He loves America. It is not a crime to love our country, think democracy and the republic is the greatest governmental system in the world, and want the best for our nation. I agree with him, it is. I hope God blesses Pat Buchanan and gives him good health for a long time. We need him to point out where we can go wrong by repeating past mistakes. It takes a wide-ranging understanding of history to see that the wheel does not have to be reinvented every 100 years. People without that grasp would continue to commit the same mistakes.
RyanM Wrote: Aug 21, 2012 7:48 PM
I agree with you about Pat with one caveat. It doesn't seem to me that we are re-inventing the wheel every 100 years, but every ten years. Too many people in this country have the memory of a gnat.
Georgia Boy 61 Wrote: Aug 21, 2012 11:02 PM
RyanM, re: memory of a gnat. One cannot forget what one has never learned in the first place; today's young people are no longer taught genuine American history.
After his great victory in Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush went before the United Nations to declare the coming of a New World Order.

The Cold War was yesterday. Communism was in its death throes. The Soviet Empire had crumbled.

The Soviet Union was disintegrating. Francis Fukuyama was writing of "The End of History." Savants trilled about the inevitable triumph of democratic capitalism.

Yet, in 2012, sectarianism, tribalism and nationalism are all resurgent, reshaping a world where U.S. power and influence are visibly receding.

Syria is sinking into a war of all against all that may end with a breakup of the...

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