OPINIONSrnBuchanan at Bayrn”Imperialism is absolutely necessary to a people which desires spiritual as well asrneconomic expansion.rnA Republic, Not an Empire:rnReclaiming America’s Destinyrnby Patrick f. BuchananrnWashington, D.C.: Regnerx’;rn437 pp., $29.95rn—Benito MussolinirnFinding America’s Wayrnby Justin RaimondornAmerica has survived, the Last andrnOnly Superpower, while so manyrnothers have fallen by the wayside, theirrnbones littering the road from empire:rnRome, Spain, Portugal, France, Russia,rnand —closest to ourselves—a once-greatrnBritain, whose tatterdemalion “Commonwealth”rnis not even a ghost of herrnBritannic Majesty’s former glor’. Are wernimmune from the decadence that sets inrnafter dreams of empire are realized, or isrnhubris likely to catch up with us in therncoming century? This is the questionrnasked, and answered, in Patrick J.rnBuchanan’s A Republic, Not anrnEmpire—a tourde force of riveting historicalrnnarrative, pyrotechnical polemics,rnand programmatic clarity that is likely torninspire a whole new generation of conser’rnative noninterventionists.rnWe have extended guarantees to thernBaltic nations, who clamor for NATOrnmembership; the doomed princes of thernGulf, who live in fear of the “Arab street”;rnthe Koreans and the Taiwanese, the Albanians,rnand the East Timorese — all ofrnwhich may seem, for the moment, a bur-rnJustin Raimondo writes fromrnSan Francisco.rnB f f ^ ^ ^ /y / ” ,/