The Unusual War

Buchanan says that America is the last superpower because she stayed out of the World Wars until their final acts. He argues that by avoiding entangling alliances, staying out of European wars, and not going abroad in search of monsters to destroy,. we alone remain as great powers. James: I certainly wouldn't say it was a good thing for America to stay out as long as it could, but it should have stayed out for maybe the whole war. Buchanan destroys that myth, or at least put some serious punctures in that myth in this book. And so I would recommend its people.