Vying only to determine which can drink more from the poisoned well of hurbris

William S. Lind's On War Column #274: Why Obama is Wrong discusses that presidential candidate's states positions on "the wars" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. His stunning conclusion (with which I agree) is this:

Here we see the central reality of American politics shining through the smoke and mirrors. America has a one-party system. That party is the Establishment Party, and its internal disagreements are minor. Both McCain and Obama are Establishment Party candidates. They agree America must be a world-controlling empire. Both men are Wilsonians, believing we must re-make other countries and cultures in our own image. Neither man conceives any real limits, political, financial, military or moral, on American power. McCain and Obama vie only in determining which can drink more deeply from the poisoned well of hubris, around which, unremarked, lie the bones of every previous world power.