FCF Re-post from March 27, 2005 Interventions Without End?

I wrote the following Jan. 1, 1993 as the cover essay for the Alternative Index:

U.S. global hegemony is history. Like every nation, America must now choose – between what is vital and worth fighting for, and what may be "idealistic," but is not worth a war.

Not long ago, America produced 96 percent of all she consumed and was the most self-sufficient republic in history. With statesmanship and sacrifice, we can become so again. With leaders like we once had, we can chuck the empire. For what good has it done us?

Interventions Without End? - by Pat Buchanan