No End to War
The Frum-Perle prescription would ensnare America in endless conflict.
by Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative

The thought recurs: the neoconservative moment may be over. For they are not only losing their hold on power, they are losing their grip on reality.

Americans are coming to appreciate that, all that bombast about 'unipolar' moments and 'American empire' aside, there are limits to American power, and we are approaching them. U.S. ground forces of 480,000 are stretched thin. There is grumbling in Army, Reserve, and National Guard units about too many tours too far from home. Backing off his 'axis-of-evil' rhetoric, Bush said in this year's State of the Union, 'We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire.'

The long retreat of American empire has begun.

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