If the US Is Going To Survive, It Must Dismantle the Empire
And bring the troops home, says Pat Buchanan

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Recently fired from MSNBC for being anti-war and politically incorrect, Pat sits down with Russia Today to discuss the US's Islamic wars over the last 20 years. The former US presidential advisor and candidate, Buchanan's most recent book is Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? and he is the subject of a new biography by Timothy Stanley, The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan.

A new war in the Middle East will be a disaster for the US and for the world economy, he says. "I opposed the Desert Storm operation in 1991 cleaning Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait because, I said, 'This would only be the first Arab-American war.'" Looking at the number of conflicts in the Islam world that America is taking part in now, one cannot but admit that Buchanan was right 20 years ago. "You cannot replicate the Middle West in the Middle East," Pat Buchanan concluded. From the time of the Cold War the US has military bases all over the world. Today, running a budget deficit of 10 per cent of its GDP, America simply cannot afford to continue "to carry this enormous burden, defending 40 or 50 countries around the world," Buchanan says, "We have to bring troops home." Getting rid of these bases essentially means dismantling the American Empire to help the US survive beyond 2025. America's crusade under the banner of ending tyranny in the world is "utterly utopian".

February 23, 2012

Patrick J. Buchanan [send him mail] is co-founder and editor of The American Conservative. He is also the author of seven books, including Where the Right Went Wrong, and Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. His latest book is Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? See his website.

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