Suicide of a Superpower_Will America Survive to 2025?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

  78. Carl Gershman, “China’s Invisible Atrocity: Who Will Stand Up for Uighur Rights?” Washington Post, July 5, 2010.

  79. Edward Wong, “China’s Money and Migrants Pour into Tibet,” New York Times, July 28, 2010.

  80. Michael Wines, “On a Day for Chinese Pride, Little Interest in Ideology,” New York Times, Oct. 1, 2009.

  81. Ibid.

  82. Ibid.

  83. Akash Kapur, “Growing Yes, but India Has Reasons to Worry,” New York Times, Nov. 29, 2009.

  84. Krishna Pokharel, “Maoist Rebels Ambush Indian Troops, Kill 76,” Wall Street Journal, Apr. 7, 2010.

  85. “India Is ‘Losing Maoist Battle,’” BBC News, Sept. 15, 2009, newsvote.bbc.co.uk.

  86. Thomas Fuller, “Fleeing Battle, Myanmar Refugees Head to China,” New York Times, Aug. 29, 2009; Michael Wines, “China Fails to Prevent Myanmar’s Ethnic Clashes,” New York Times, Sept. 4, 2009.

  87. Tim Johnston, “Renegade Soldiers Seize Burma Town,” Financial Times, Nov. 9, 2010.

  88. Cassie Fleming, “Thailand: Ethnic Violence Spreads: Muslims, Buddhists Fight in South,” Washington Times, July 24, 2009.

  89. Seth Mydans, “Churches Attacked Amid Furor in Malaysia,” New York Times, Jan. 11, 2010.

  90. Ibid.

  91. Norimitsu Onishi, “In Philippine Strife, Uprooting Is a Constant,” New York Times, Nov. 23, 2009.

  92. Pia Lee Brago, “UN, EU, US Condemn Maguindanao Massacre,” Philippine Star, Nov. 26, 2009.

  93. Jim Gomez, “At Least 21 Killed in Attack on Journalists and Supporters of Philippine Politician,” Washington Post, Nov. 24, 2009.

  94. “Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 2009,” whitehouse.gov.

  95. Meyer, “A Return to 1815.”

  96. Ishaan Tharoor, “Pakistan’s Other Problem Area: Baluchistan,” Time, Nov. 1, 2009.

  97. “Barzani Says Kurdistan Nation Should Have Its Own State—Paper,” Aswat al-Iraq, July 16, 2010, en.aswataliraq.info.

  98. Pamela Constable, “In Afghanistan, Shifting Political Fortunes,” Washington Post, Dec. 24, 2010.

  99. Ibid.

  100. Jeffrey Gettleman, “Violence Grips Southern Sudan as Vote on Independence Nears,” New York Times, Dec. 12, 2009.

  101. Hamza Hendawi, “Sudanese Split May Set Risky Precedent,” Washington Times, Jan. 24, 2011.

  102. Laura Kasinof, “Yemen Used Lethal Force to Quell Southern Secession Protests, Says Report,” Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 15, 2009.

  103. Moynihan, Pandaemonium, 11.

  104. “Gadaffi Tells Palestinians: Revolt Against Israel,” Reuters, Feb. 13, 2011.

  105. “Survey: Arabs to Form Majority in Historic Palestine After 2014,” Agence France Presse, Daily Star, Dec. 31, 2010.

  106. Spencer Ackerman, “So About Israel,” American Prospect, Oct. 1, 2006.

  107. Peter Beinert, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010.

  108. Glenn Kessler, “‘Jewish State’ Concept Could Pose Another Hurdle in Peace Deal,” Washington Post, Oct. 3, 2010.

  109. Martin Arostegui, “Vote Reflects Racial Divide,” Washington Times, Jan. 27, 2009.

  110. “A Passport to Utopia: Evo Morales Campaigns for a Great Leap Forward. Or Back, Say Some,” Economist, Jan. 24, 2009.

  111. Arostegui, “Vote Reflects Racial Divide.”

  112. Joshua Partlow, “Bolivian Referendum Points Up Clashing Visions,” Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2008.

  113. Ibid.

  114. John Zmirak, “Should We Tolerate Intolerance?” insidecatholic.com, Aug. 11, 2010, catholicity.com.

  115. Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 6; “Albion’s Seedlings,” March 14, 2006, anglosphere.com.

  116. Amy Chua, “A World on the Edge,” foster.20megsfree.com; Emily Eakin, “On the Dark Side of Democracy,” New York Times, Jan. 31, 2004.

  117. Chua, World on Fire, 136.

  118. Ibid., 270.

  119. Thomas Fuller, “Malaysia to End Quotas That Favor Ethnic Malays,” New York Times, July 1, 2009.

  120. Chua, World on Fire, 112.

  121. Joshua Hammer, “(Almost) Out of Africa: The White Tribes,” World Affairs, May/June 2010, 38.

  122. “Zuma Must Bury Terre’Blanche,” Financial Times, April 7, 2010.

  123. Ibid.; Chris Makhaye and Terna Gyuse, “White Supremacist’s Death Highlights Post-Apartheid Tensions,” The Final Call, April 12, 2010.

  124. Dan McDougall, “Jacob Zuma Warns ANC to Halt Racial Anger,” Sunday Times, April 11, 2010.

  125. Robert Guest, “The World’s Most Extreme Affirmative Action Program,” WSJ Opinion Archives, Dec. 26, 2004.

  126. Simon Wood, “Race Against Time,” The Observer, Jan. 22, 2006.

  127. Frank Salter, “The Misguided Advocates of Open Borders,” Quadrant Online, June 2010, quadrant.org.au.

  128. Ying Lowrey, “Race/Ethnicity and Establishment Dynamics, 2002–2006,” Office of Advocacy, Small Business Administration, census.gov/econ/sbo/02/asiansof_korean,html.

  129. “Black Korea,” Ice Cube lyrics, azlyrics.com.

  130. “Andrew Young Resigns from Wal-Mart Group,” AP, Aug. 18, 2006, msnbc.msn.com.

  131. R. Asmerom, “Why Do Koreans Own the Black Beauty Supply Business?” Atlanta Post, Sept. 27, 2010.

  132. Chua, World on Fire, 142.

  133. Simon Romero, “Dueling Beauty Pageants Put Income Gap on View,” New York Times, Dec. 1, 2010.

  134. Ibid.

  135. Jonathan Wheatley, “Brazil’s Leader Blames White People for Crisis,” Financial Times, March 27, 2009; Gary Duffy, “Brazil’s Lula Raps ‘White’ Crisis,” BBC News, March 27, 2009.

  136. Orlando Patterson, “Jamaica’s Bloody Democracy,” New York Times, May 29, 2010.

  137. Ibid.

  138. Andrew Higgins, “As China Finds Bigger Place in World Affairs, Its Wealth Breeds Hostility,” Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2010.

  139. Ibid.

  140. Chua, World on Fire, 143.

  141. “Interview with Dmitry Rogozin,” Russia Today, Nov. 18, 2008.

  142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture, 1970, nobelprize.org.

  143. Muller, “Us and Them,” 18.

  9. “The White Party”

  1. Soledad O’Brien, CNN Transcripts, Nov. 4, 2008.

  2. CNN Transcripts, Nov. 4, 2008.

  3. “Howard Dean Shares Plan to Unite Dems,” interview by Michel Martin, NPR, Aug. 15, 2008.

  4. Bruce Bartlett, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 55.

  5. Ibid., 57–58.

  6. Adam Liptak, “Stevens, the Only Protestant on the Supreme Court,” New York Times, April 9, 2010.

  7. Greg Garrison, “1921 Slaying of Catholic Priest Gets Renewed Interest,” Religion New Service, May 27, 2010, religionnews.com; Bartlett, Wrong on Race, 120–21.

  8. Bartlett, Wrong on Race.

  9. Robert George, “Back in Black,” National Review, July 12, 2000.

  10. Richard Nixon, “Statement on Signing the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, June 22, 1970,” John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, presidency.ucsb.edu.

  11. Zoltan Hajinal, “The GOP’s Racial Challenge,” New York Times, Nov. 10, 2010.

  12. Amy Chozick and Laura Meckler, “Race Re-Enters the Spotlight As Candidates Turn Negative,” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 6, 2008.

  13. Kelefa Sanneh, “Beyond the Pale: Is White the New Black?” New Yorker, Apr. 12, 2010.

  14. Norman Podhoretz, “Why Are Jews Liberal?” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10, 2009.

  15. Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser, How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Election (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 31.

  16. Thomas Edsall, “For the Modern GOP, It’s a Return to the ‘W
hite Voter Strategy,’” HuffingtonPost.com, Aug. 4, 2009.

  17. Bill Greener, “My GOP: Too Old, Too White to Win,” salon.com, July 20, 2009.

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ron Brownstein, “Obama’s White-Out,” National Journal, Jan. 20, 2010.

  20. Michael Moore, “17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists,” Mike’s Letter, Nov. 5, 2004, michaelmoore.com.

  21. Frank Rich, “The Pit Bull in the China Shop,” New York Times, Nov. 22, 2009.

  22. Ruy Teixeira, “Demographic Change and the Future of the Parties,” Center for American Progress, June 2010.

  23. “Rightward March,” New York Times, Nov. 7, 2010.

  24. Campbell Robertson, “White Democrats Lose More Ground in South,” New York Times, Nov. 7, 2010.

  25. Ben Evans, “White Southern Democrats Nearly Wiped Out After Mid-term Elections,” AP, Nov. 5, 2010, ljworld.com.

  26. Ronald Brownstein, “White Flight,” National Journal, Jan. 7, 2011.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Ronald Brownstein, “Dems Find Electoral Safety Behind a Wall of Blue,” National Journal, Jan. 17, 2009, rbrownstein@nationaljournal.com.

  29. Jeff Jacoby, “Cradle of Democracy?” Boston Globe, March 18, 2009, jeffjacoby.com.

  30. Cathleen Decker, “For the GOP, California Is a Deep Blue Hole,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 2010.

  31. Michael Blood, “California Avoids GOP Wave,” Washington Times, Dec. 1, 2010.

  32. Ronald Brownstein, “The March of Diversity,” National Journal, Dec. 19, 2009.

  33. Teixeira, “Demographic Change and the Future of Parties,” 9.

  34. Adam Nagourney, “Orange County Is No Longer Nixon Country,” New York Times, Aug. 30, 2010.

  35. Gustavo Arellano, “Loretta Sanchez on Univision: ‘Vietnamese’ Trying to Take Her Congressional Seat Away from Democrats,” Sept. 20, 2010, blogs.ocweekly.com.

  36. Nagourney, “Orange County Is No Longer Nixon Country.”

  37. John C. Calhoun, Disquisition on Government, The Online Library of Liberty, oll.libertyfund.org.

  38. Ibid.

  39. Sara Murray, “Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation on Entitlements,” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 15, 2010.

  40. Ibid.

  41. James Bovard, “The Food-Stamp Crime Wave,” Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2011, A17.

  42. “U.S. Vote Rate Dips in ’08, Older Whites Sit Out,” USA Today, July 20, 2009.

  43. Frank Rich, “She Broke the G.O.P., and Now She Owns It,” New York Times, July 11, 2009.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Katharine O. Seelye and Jeff Zeleny, “On the Defensive, Obama Calls His Words Ill-Chosen,” New York Times, April 13, 2008.

  46. Mike Allen, “Bill Clinton: Right Wing Is Weaker,” Politico, Sept. 27, 2009.

  47. Richard Benedetto, “GOP: We Were Wrong to Play Racial Politics,” USA Today, July 14, 2005.

  48. Ben Wattenberg, “Winner for the Harshest Political Rhetoric of the Year,” Jewish World Review, Aug. 3, 2001.

  49. Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence, “Clinton Makes Case for Wide Appeal,” USA Today, May 7, 2008.

  50. Joan Walsh, “The Brazile-Begala Smackdown,” salon.com, May 7, 2008.

  51. Frank Rich. “She Broke the G.O.P.”

  52. Jacob Weisberg, “The Lou Dobbs Democrats: Say Hello to the New Economic Nationalists,” slate.com, Nov. 8, 2006.

  53. Todd and Gawiser, How Barack Obama Won, 39.

  54. Karl Vick and Ashley Surdin, “Most of California’s Black Voters Backed Gay Marriage Ban,” Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2008.

  55. “Teaching the Bible,” CBS News Poll, April 16, 2006, cbsnews.com.

  56. “Religion a Strength and Weakness for Both Parties: Public Divides on Origin of Life,” PEW Forum on Religion & Public Life: Summary of Findings, Aug. 30, 2005, people-press.org.

  57. Ibid.

  58. Scott Keeter, “On Darwin’s 200th Birthday, Americans Still Divided About Evolution,” Pew Research Center Publications, Feb. 5, 2009, pewresearch.org.

  59. “Religion a Strength and Weakness.”

  60. Anthony York, “The GOP’s Latino Strategy,” salon.com, Jan. 13, 2000.

  61. Justin Ewers, “Republicans and Latino Voters: Has the GOP Shifted on Immigration Reform?” U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 30, 2009; “Meet the Press Transcript for Nov. 9, 2008,” msnbc.msn.com.

  62. “87% Say English Should Be U.S. Official Language,” Rasmussen Reports, May 11, 2010, rasmussenreports.com.

  63. “Poll Shows Support for Official English at New High,” Zogby International, U.S. Newswire, March 21, 2006; Edward Rothstein, “In the U.S. and Europe, Tensions Between a National and Minority Languages,” New York Times, May 29, 2006.

  64. “77% Oppose Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants,” Rasmussen Reports, Nov. 6, 2007, rasmussenreports.com; Bonnie Erbe, “Poll: Immigration Amnesty Is Unpopular Outside the Beltway, Pols Remain Clueless,” U.S. News & World Report, April 16, 2009.

  65. N. C. Aizenman, “Economy, Not Immigration, a Main Worry of Hispanics,” Washington Post, Jan. 16, 2010.

  66. “April 2006 Field Poll (Blacks Sampled),” Public Opinion Polls, numbersusa.com.

  67. “Mass Migration vs. Black Americans,” numbersusa.com.

  68. Ralph Z. Hallow, “Steele: GOP Needs ‘Hip-Hop’ Makeover,” Washington Times, Feb. 19, 2009.

  69. “The 14th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service,” Institute of Politics, Harvard University, Spring 2008, 12.

  70. “Executive Summary: The 14th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service,” Institute of Politics, Harvard University, April 2008.

  71. Philip Rucker, “As Fla. Tea Party’s Rubio Surges, Crist and Meek Turn Firepower on Each Other,” Washington Post, Oct. 1, 2010.

  72. “Carol Moseley Braun: Clinton Endorsement of Rahm ‘A Betrayal,’” huffingtonpost.com Jan. 19, 2011.

  73. “Danny Davis Tells Clinton to Back Off as Racial Tension Grows in Mayor’s Race,” huffingtonpost.com, Dec. 28, 2010.

  10. The Long Retreat

  1. Englishforums.com.

  2. Andrew Bacevich, “American Triumphalism: A Postmortem,” Commonweal, Jan. 30, 2009.

  3. Anne Applebaum, “The Slowly Vanishing NATO,” Washington Post, Oct. 20, 2009.

  4. Garet Garrett, The People’s Pottage (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 1958), 158–59.

  5. Ibid., 159.

  6. Bacevich, “American Triumphalism.”

  7. Tony Smith, “It’s Uphill for the Democrats,” Washington Post, March 11, 2007.

  8. Bacevich, “American Triumphalism.”

  9. Ibid.

  10. Steven Thomma, “Americans Turning Sharply Inward Toward Isolationism,” Yahoo News, Dec. 3, 2009; “Poll: America’s Place in the World,” Pew Research Center, Dec. 3, 2009, historynewsnetwork.org.

  11. Walter Lippmann, U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Boston: Little, Brown, 1943), 6–7, 9–10.

  12. Ibid., 8

  13. Amanda Bransford, “U.S. Military Spending Far Outpaces Rest of the World,” antiwar.com, May 29, 2010.

  14. CNN Opinion Research Poll, CNN Opinion Research Corporation, Jan. 25, 2011.

  15. Laurence Vance, “Same Empire, Different Emperor,” lewrockwell.com, Feb. 11, 2010.

  16. Ibid.

  17. John Gray, “A Shattering Moment in America’s Fall from Power,” Observer, Sept. 28, 2008.

  18. Gary Hart, Joan Meyers, “The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons,” Carnegie Council, March 3, 2006, cceia.org.

  19. Stephen Whitfield, Synopsis, The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment), powells.com.

  20. Richard Lugar, “Lugar Says It’s Time to Reaffirm the Fundamental Value of NATO,” press release of Senator Lugar, Sept. 28, 2009, lugar.senate.gov; Richard Betts, “The Three Faces of NATO,” National Interest, April 10, 2009.

  21. “Top General: It’s a Draw in Afghanistan,” ABC News, May 13, 2010.

  22. Steven Erlang
er, “Europeans Fear Crisis Threatens Liberal Benefits,” New York Times, May 22, 2010.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Boxed In, the Constraints of U.S. Foreign Policy,” World Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2010, 48–49.

  25. Ibid., 49.

  26. William Knowlton, “Economy Helps Make Chinese the Leaders in Optimism, 24-Nation Survey Finds,” New York Times, July 2, 2008.

  27. Lester Brown, “Can the U.S. Be China’s Breadbasket?” Washington Post, March 13, 2011.

  28. Jerry Seper and Matthew Cella, “Signs in Arizona Warn of Smuggler Dangers,” Washington Times, Aug. 31, 2010.

  29. George F. Kennan, Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), 154.

  30. Jerry Seper and Matthew Cella, “Signs in Arizona.”

  31. Michael Webster, “Mexico Federal Troops and Police Rush Into Juarez to Try and Retake the City,” articlesbase.com, March 4, 2009.

  32. “Mexican Police Chief Quits After Officers Killed,” Reuters, Feb. 20, 2009.

  33. “Calderon Vows to Win Mexico’s Drug ‘Cancer’ Fight,” Agence France Presse, Feb. 27, 2009, google.com.

  34. Joshua E. Keating, “Freedom Gone South,” Foreign Policy, Jan. 13, 2001.

  35. “Military Report: Mexico, Pakistan at Risk of ‘Rapid and Sudden Collapse,’” foxnews.com, Jan. 14, 2009.

  36. Milton Friedman, “Prohibition and Drugs,” Newsweek, May 1, 1972.

  37. “Czech President Signs Lisbon Treaty,” EUBusiness, Nov. 4, 2009.

  38. Louis Charbonneau, “Czech President Tells UN to Stay Out of Economics,” Reuters, Sept. 25, 2010.

  39. “The Return of Economic Nationalism,” The Economist, Feb. 7–13, 2009.

  40. Ibid.

  41. Charles Kupchan, “As Nationalism Rises, Will the European Union Fall?” Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2010.

  42. Ibid.

  43. Jude Dougherty, “National Identity,” Nationale und kulturelle Identität im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, ed. Anton Rauscher, vol. 18 of the series Soziale Orientierung (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006), 23.

  44. Ibid, 19.

  45. Rudyard Kipling, “Sussex,” oldpoetry.com.

  11. The Last Chance

  1. Silla Brush and Gautham Nagesh, “Controversial Beck Rally is an Event Heavier on Religion than Politics,” thehill.com Aug. 28, 2010.

  2. Duncan Williams, Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1991), 140.