No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare

Where are the Christians? by Pat Buchanan World Net News today.

"Already, Bush is ranting about Syria being behind the Hezbollah capture of the Israeli soldiers. But where is the proof?

Who is whispering in his ear? The same people who told him Iraq was maybe months away from an atom bomb, that an invasion would be a "cakewalk," that he would be Churchill, that U.S. troops would be greeted with candy and flowers, that democracy would break out across the region, that Palestinians and Israelis would then sit down and make peace?

How much must America pay for the education of this man?"

Pat Buchanan in his "Where the Right Went Wrong" Sept 2004 Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 0 312 34115-6 Page 7/8.

"The Republican Party, which had presided over America's rise to manufacturing pre-eminence, has acquiesced in the de-undustrialisation of the nation to gratift transnational corporations whose oligarchs are party financiers. U.S. coporations are shutting factroies here, opening them in China, "outsourcibg" back-office work to India, importaing Asians to take white-collar jobs from Americans, and hiring illegal aliens for service jobs. The Republican Party has signed off on economic treason"

At the end of the book he reminds the reader of Madison's warning...

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts and taxes are the known instrument for bringing the many under the domination of the few ... No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."