{"id":17807,"date":"2012-11-27T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17807"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:59:35","slug":"pat-buchanan-dismantle-the-american-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/pat-buchanan-dismantle-the-american-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Buchanan: Dismantle The American Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamic wars have brought questionable benefit to the US over the last 20 years, former US presidential advisor Pat Buchanan, author of Suicide of a Superpower, shared with RT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new war in the Middle East will be a disaster for the US and for the world economy, he says. &#8220;I opposed the Desert Storm operation in 1991 cleaning Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait because, I said, &#8216;This would only be the first Arab-American war.'&#8221; Looking at the number of conflicts in the Islam world that America is taking part in now, one cannot but admit that Buchanan was right 20 years ago. &#8220;You cannot replicate the Middle West in the Middle East,&#8221; Pat Buchanan concluded. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L033M6wqNCI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L033M6wqNCI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>From the time of the Cold War the US has military bases all over the world. Today, running a budget deficit of 10 per cent of its GDP, America simply cannot afford to continue &#8220;to carry this enormous burden, defending 40 or 50 countries around the world,&#8221; Buchanan says, &#8220;We have to bring troops home.&#8221; Getting rid of these bases essentially means dismantling the American Empire to help the US survive beyond 2025. America&#8217;s crusade under the banner of ending tyranny in the world is &#8220;utterly utopian&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic wars have brought questionable benefit to the US over the last 20 years, former US presidential advisor Pat Buchanan, author of Suicide of a Superpower, shared with RT. A new war in the Middle East will be a disaster for the US and for the world economy, he says. &#8220;I opposed the Desert Storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-17807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}