A Republic, Not an Empire

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From Pat Buchanan's
A Republic, Not an Empire
"Present U.S. foreign policy, which commits America to go to war for scores of
nations in regions where we have never fought before, is unsustainable. As we
pile commitment upon commitment in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle
East, and the Persian Gulf, American power continues to contract—a sure for-
mula for foreign policy disaster.
"The day is coming when America's global hegemony is going to be challenged,
and our leaders will discover they lack the resources to make good on all the war
guarantees they have handed out so frivolously; and the American people, awak-
ened to what it is their statesmen have committed them to do, will declare them-
selves unwilling to pay the price of empire.
"A day of reckoning is approaching. It is my hope that the price in blood, trea-
sure, and humiliation America will eventually be forced to pay for the hubris,
arrogance, and folly of our reigning foreign policy elites is not,... Tovább

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From Pat Buchanan's
A Republic, Not an Empire
"Present U.S. foreign policy, which commits America to go to war for scores of
nations in regions where we have never fought before, is unsustainable. As we
pile commitment upon commitment in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle
East, and the Persian Gulf, American power continues to contract—a sure for-
mula for foreign policy disaster.
"The day is coming when America's global hegemony is going to be challenged,
and our leaders will discover they lack the resources to make good on all the war
guarantees they have handed out so frivolously; and the American people, awak-
ened to what it is their statesmen have committed them to do, will declare them-
selves unwilling to pay the price of empire.
"A day of reckoning is approaching. It is my hope that the price in blood, trea-
sure, and humiliation America will eventually be forced to pay for the hubris,
arrogance, and folly of our reigning foreign policy elites is not, God forbid, war,
defeat, and the diminution of this Republic—the fate of every other great nation
or empire that set out on this same course."
Praise for Pat Buchanan's previous books
"Buchanan has written a rallying call for a renewed
sense of nationalism____fascinating "
—New York Times
"Buchanan is one hell of a wordsmith."
—Village Voice
"Rightfrom the Beginning is a marvelous and witty memoir
written by a marvelous and witty man."
—Wall Street Journal
will it be in the future,
or will it collapse from
imperial overstretch?
A Republic, Not an Empire
is presidential candidate Pat Buchanan's eru-
dite and eloquent plea for a new American
foreign policy. To avoid a future of endless
war, he offers a new policy rooted in
America's greatest traditions.
This is the story of how American states-
men, through vision and courage, quadru-
pled the size of our Republic in a single
century to create the most remarkable nation
the world had ever seen. This is also the story
of how twentieth-century presidents aban-
doned George Washington's "great rule"—
to avoid permanent alliances and stay out of
foreign wars—and led this country into
global conflagrations that changed America
and the world forever, and not always for the
better.
The United States has piled commit-
ment upon commitment to nations and
regions around the world—the Balkans,
Eastern Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Middle
East, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.
Buchanan shows how America is reenacting
the ancient folly of imperial overstretch that
has led to the ruin of every other great power
in history—and to the catastrophic world
wars of this blood-soaked century.
He argues for a new foreign policy root-
ed in the wisdom of the Founding Fathers
and giants of American statesmanship—
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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, John
Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew
Jackson—as well as modern warrior heroes
like Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas
Mac Arthur.
Surveying the sweep of our nations
history, Buchanan demonstrates how
Americas liberty is best protected when
the United States pursues its own vital
interests, and how our liberty is most
endangered when we embark on inter-
national crusades that are divorced from
those interests.
Patrick J. Buchanan is a
political commentator and nationally
syndicated columnist. He has been a
founding panelist on three national
television shows on CNN and NBC,
authored four books, including The
Great Betrayal and Right from the
Beginning, and served as a senior White
House adviser to Presidents Nixon,
Ford, and Reagan. Buchanan is mak-
ing his third run for the Republican
presidential nomination. He lives with
his wife, Shelley, in McLean, Virginia.
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