Bill Delahunt: “In ruthless candor, these are his words, President Bush does not have the surplus of resources, military, strategic…”

“In ruthless candor, these are his words, President Bush does not have the surplus of resources, military, strategic, financial, political, to hold the empire. As some of us predicted a decade ago, the compulsive interventionism of the Bushites might lead to imperial overstretch. Something has to give. It is going to be the empire. From here on it begins to recede. Either President Bush starts discarding imperial responsibilities we cannot carry and bringing the troops home or his successor will. That is not me. That is Patrick Buchanan.”