Vitas, you don't think Saddam Hussein has an ego trip and wants to be the strongman of the Middle East? I do, and I think his behavior exhibits this.
By the way, what do you think of this, and who do you think said it?
>>>"America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatressof the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit...." |
