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Pat’s dismissal of Ahmadinejad on Hannity is just too reminiscent of Obama’s “tiny country” dismissal of Iran.
The default foreign policy position of almost every political person these days is: American intervention. In short, war. This includes bombing, ground troops, and even forced economic sanctions.
Buchanan merely presents a counter argument to them.
All he needs to say:
The USA cannot afford to intervene militarily and defend other nations, nor does it have the moral imperative, the omniscience to choose the “correct” side and mitigate all the unintended consequences, or the leadership ability.
Looking how you keep posting to yourself you seem a bit of attention seeker here. But I’ll take the bait.
You’re graphic isn’t funny, but even if it were your target is a 77 year old man who hasn’t participated in government or politics or elections since 2000. He has no say or sway in anything. He is all but retired. Perhaps you might find someone actually involved and at least partially responsible for current predicaments to make a caption about?
I find your handle comical given the target of your poorly captioned picture, dishing on a man who was the FRIGGIN communications director for Ronaldus Magnus himself, PJB actually WAS a Reaganite Republican.
Finally, you dish on a man who in three tremendous volumes starting 17 years ago laid out the case to prevent the absurd destruction of our great America, despite Reagan’s restoration, right before our eyes. The Great Betrayal, A Republic Not an Empire and Death of the West were the warnings of the complete decline of our beautiful, wonderful, amazing country and no one would listen. We’d still be an economic colossus, we’d still hold our place as the globe’s heavyweight champion, we wouldn’t have to worry about our demographic balance vanishing without ever even getting to vote on it. No one would give a rat’s behind about what anyone in Iran said about anything.
The truth is we can’t really do anything about what Iran does, not right now anyway. We probably don’t have the economic power to fight for real, certainly we don’t have the Patriotism of the populace required to do so, we’ve shipped our economy overseas, borrowed operating expenses from China, hitch rides to the space station from Russia (!), 1/3 of adults don’t even work (yeah, you’ll get them to fight) and kids can’t even wear American Flag tee shirts to school anymore.
Maybe you can do Pete DuPont wearing Depends next?
On the Left/liberal end of the spectrum, we have Wilsonian interventionists (in today's world, the Clintonites) as well as pacifists. On the right/conservative end of the spectrum, there have always been "isolationists" (i.e. Republicans who opposed Wilson and getting involved in WWI, the America First committee, and today, libertarian and paleoconservative "isolationists" like Paul and Buchanan) as well as interventionists hawks (neoconservatives like Bolton, etc).
Actually, Reagan's foreign policy was somewhere in between the neoconservative interventionist and the paleoconservative "isolationist" view of things. He, along with Eagleburger, Weinberger, etc. are foreign policy realists - they're not interested in nation-building or "spreading Democracy" (a view they share with libertarians and paleoconservatives), but they're more willing to resort to force over diplomacy to protect our strategic interests. Case in point: Reagan did bomb Libya, but he also withdrew US troops from Lebanon after Marine barracks were bombed there, because he felt that it wasn't our war.
Bottom line is that both neoconservatives and libertarians/paleoconservatives claim Reagan as their own, and they're both equally wrong (or right?).
I’m not sure which Planet Pat lives on.
He switches so often you almost think its Medication related.
Totally clueless on Israel
Buchanan holds these positions for one and only one reason: his monomaniacal, irrational, fanatical hatred of Jews and Israel.
Iran has promised to destroy America. A few months ago they chanted “Death to America” in their parliament. Either Buchanan is senile or he is a dual loyalist, whose primary loyalty is his ideology leaving scant space in his heart for the safety and survival of America.