While the losses [of 9/11, of the first WTC attack, of Khobar Towers, of African embassies, of the Cole] were tragic, they may be put in perspective if we realize that 85,000 people have been murdered in the USA since 9/11 -- not one in a terror attack.
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60 percent of Americans are ready to pack it in in Iraq. Why were Western men willing to die in such numbers rather than accept defeat in the early 20th century, but this generation is not?
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Preventive war as the antidote to terror seems ... to have failed us. Democracy as the surest guarantee of US security ... seems a less persuasive proposition.
The cost of empire is too high, and our willingness to pay the butcher's bill has diminished.
One man's crisis is another man's opportunity, and Patrick Buchanan the isolationist is on the campaign trail.
