http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_01_16/buchanan.html

I searched and didn't see a thread on this.

Worth a read, I thought.

1/12/2006 4:47:16 PM

i haven't read it yet

but i can't tell if its career suicide or sheer brilliance

1/12/2006 5:06:07 PM

Pat Buchanan for president 2008, what do you think salisburyboy?

1/12/2006 6:51:16 PM

he's been taking those intelligence pills.

1/12/2006 7:19:56 PM

holy shit I agree with pat buchanan. i need to take another shower...

1/12/2006 7:29:56 PM

Quote :

"What Fox News is to red-state America, Al-Jazeera is to the Arab street."

i thought they were fair and balanced? apparently this powerful conservative thinks otherwise

[Edited on January 12, 2006 at 7:36 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2006 7:35:58 PM

This kind of stuff isn't all that new from Buchanan. He's been critical of the Bush administration for a long time now, especially over Iraq.

1/12/2006 7:41:58 PM

He's not a powerful conservative, he's a powerful nutjob. Like Pat Robertson. They just like to pretend conservatism of a mainstream kind. What the fuck is it with guys named Pat?

1/12/2006 7:45:10 PM

Comparing the politics of Buchanan with those of Robertson... well, you should really just quit the Soap Box now and never come back.

1/12/2006 7:57:39 PM

^yeah, they aren't even CLOSE

1/12/2006 8:38:32 PM

Is this one of those "how close are you paying attention" headlines?

Of course they have a point. The question isn't about that. It's about whether or not they have a good one.

1/12/2006 8:38:39 PM

i know. imagine that. arabs hating jews. whats next?

1/12/2006 8:49:03 PM

Quote :

"rather than have us as the world’s lone superpower, they would prefer the Chinese"

yeah well

those bastards had their chance

but they were all "we're to civilised to use gunpowder for weaponry"

fucking chodes

1/12/2006 10:33:26 PM

Quote :

"While only 6 percent agreed with al-Qaeda’s aim to establish an Islamic state and only 7percent approve of its methods, 20 percent admire the way al-Qaeda “stood up for Muslim causes” and 36 percent admire how it “confronts the U.S.” "

wow

Quote :

"And while we sent half a million troops to rescue that nation of 1.5 million, we sent none to Rwanda, where perhaps that many people were massacred. "

agreed. however, thats a failure of the UN moreso than any one world power.




[Edited on January 12, 2006 at 10:52 PM. Reason : fggfgfgfdsgsdfgf]

1/12/2006 10:35:06 PM

it's hard to believe he wrote that

1/13/2006 12:05:02 AM

not really. Buchanan is not a bandwagon right winger. Plus, he's big into isolationsim.

1/13/2006 12:06:47 AM

Isolationism would work if there was way to separate crazy people from non-crazy people.

1/13/2006 12:08:59 AM

So would most other systems of governance. But then, that's irrespective of the global economy. Isolationism is no longer a viable policy for any industrialized nation.

1/13/2006 12:12:52 AM

it may work for Papua New Guniea

1/13/2006 12:13:34 AM

Quote :

"Isolationism is no longer a viable policy for any industrialized nation."

1/13/2006 12:40:55 AM

Papua New Guniea has a robust coconut industry...actually no they don't

1/13/2006 10:02:23 AM

War for oil.

1/13/2006 11:37:05 AM

we need to invade canada.

i want to go to war for maple syrup.

1/13/2006 1:33:05 PM

Quote :

" After all, before liberating Kuwait, Secretary of State Baker said the coming war was about “o-i-l.” And while we sent half a million troops to rescue that nation of 1.5 million, we sent none to Rwanda, where perhaps that many people were massacred. If Kuwait did not sit on an underground sea of oil, would we have gone in? Is our military presence in the Mideast unrelated to its control of two-thirds of the world’s oil reserves? If human rights is our goal, why have we not gone into Darfur, the real hellhole of human rights? If democracy is what we are fighting for, why did we not invade Cuba, a dictatorship, 90 miles away, far more hostile to America than Saddam’s Iraq, and where human rights have been abused for half a century? Saddam never hosted nuclear missiles targeted at U.S. cities. And is Israel not our fair-haired boy? Though Sharon & Co. have stomped on as many UN resolutions as Saddam Hussein ever did, they have pocketed $100 billion in U.S. aid and are now asking for a $2 billion bonus this year, Katrina notwithstanding. Anyone doubt they will get it? "

1/13/2006 1:35:49 PM