Time To Exit The Empire Game

By Patrick J. Buchanan

25/07/08 "WND" -- - - As any military historian will testify, among the most
difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon's retreat from
Moscow, Lee's retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur's retreat from the Yalu
come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 - and a
Muslim-Hindu bloodbath ensued.

France's departure from Indochina was ignominious, and her abandonment of
hundreds of thousands of faithful Algerians to the FALN disgraceful. Few
American can forget the humiliation of Saigon '75, or the boat people, or
the Cambodian holocaust.

Strategic retreats that turn into routs are often the result of what Lord
Salisbury called "the commonest error in politics ... sticking to the
carcass of dead policies."

From 1989 to 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and breakup of the
USSR, America had an opportunity to lay down its global burden and become
again what Jeane Kirkpatrick called "a normal country in a normal time."

Obama Says Pressure on Iran Is Building
Published: July 26, 2008
PARIS - Senator Barack Obama on Friday warned Iran not to wait for a
new American president and accept an international proposal now to
stop enriching uranium.

If not, he said, "the pressure, I think, is only going to build."
In a quick visit to Paris for a meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy
of France, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential
candidate, said the two men agreed that Iran poses "an extraordinarily
grave situation" with dangers to Israel, the West and the possibility
of nuclear non-proliferation. The world, he said, must send "a clear
message to Iran to end its illicit nuclear program

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