America

South Puget Sound Libertarian - Agreeing with Bush:

"But the ideological struggle we are engaged in here in America is not with Islamism, it is with the messianic view that the United States should go out and start wars everywhere 'with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world'. The result of his hubristic imperial view is endless war, domestic economic catastrophe, more terrorism and loss of freedom at home.

Unfortunately for us, many of those who oppose Bush are just as bad on this policy. If the Republicans are replaced by Democrats, we will not see an end to American imperialism. Remember that the Democrats — Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — labored under the same delusional belief in American world hegemony as does Bush, and many of them still do. We will not live peaceful lives until our own government acts in a peaceful manner. As John Quincy Adams said in 1821:

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and prayers, but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of her own. "