Buchanan and anti-imperialism

[C. G. Estabrook]

Buchanan gave a speech at the Cato Institute yesterday that was far better
on imperialist issues that anything coming from Gore/Bradley/Bush/McCain.
Admittedly that's not a very high standard, and there are objectionable
things in what Buchanan said, but attacks on imperialism from main-steam
pols have been rare enough...

He ended by quoting an unlikely figure, to unusual effect:

	A century ago, a great populist leader begged America not to

	forego her best traditions and annex the Philippines, an imperial

	act that would draw America into three Asian wars. We did not heed

	his advice; let us heed it now: "The fruits of imperialism, be

	they bitter or sweet," declared Bryan, "must be left to the

	subjects of monarchy. This is one tree of which citizens of a

	republic may not partake. It is the voice of the serpent, not the

	voice of God, which bids us eat."

<http://www.buchananreform.com/library/speeches/19991122.htm>

	--C. G. Estabrook