Pat Buchanan Oddly Thinks Israel is a Bigger Threat Than Iran

Yahoo! News Contributor Network ^ | February 22, 2012 | Mark Whittington

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Pat Buchanan, the columnist, author, and until recently MSNBC's token right-winger, garnered a lot of sympathy when he was fired from his job at the left-leaning news network apparently because of a book he wrote.

Too bad, as reported in the Daily Caller, Buchanan had to ruin things by articulating how obnoxious his views really are. In essence, he suggested that Israel with its 300 estimated nuclear weapons was a bigger threat to the United States than is Iran with its nuclear program on Russian television.

Buchanan went on about how his favorite Jewish conspiracy, which he called the "neocons," is itching for war with Iran, for no good reason according to him.

Mind, by Buchanan's logic, Great Britain and France are really big threats, owing to the fact that they have nuclear arsenals as well.

Buchanan makes a common mistake that other people such as Ron Paul have made to equate Iran having nuclear weapons to the old Soviet Union having nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union during the Cold War, just as Iran is today, was run by murderers and thugs. Yet the Soviets did not launch a nuclear strike at the United States because it knew that the USSR would have been annihilated by the retaliation attack. By that logic, Israel's nuclear arsenal would provide a sufficient deterrent against Iran using whatever nuclear weapons it acquires.

Only it won't. Unlike the leaders of the old Soviet Union, the rulers of the Iranian theocracy do not care if their country is destroyed in a nuclear war. For the rulers of Iran, a nuclear strike on Israel would be the ultimate suicide bombing....

[rmlew]

I appreciate your honesty.

No country is a military threat to the USA especially Iran.
I guess an American city being nuked wouldn't be a military threat? Being forced out of the Persian Gulf wouldn't be a threat? Nuclear proliferation to Saudi Arabia and Egypt would also pose no threat?

Our only real threat is the ongoing loss of our liberty and treasury and the fascists who want more for them and less for the USA. Which is exactly what this so called WOT is now doing to us, while making a select few greedy sleazy opportunists rich, and giving corrupt politicians and media the ability to control the foolish masses.
You have no concept of how limited our civil liberties would be if a terrorist group nukes an American city. You will pine for today.

. Another trillion dollar war will destroy us.
Pardon me while I torch your strawman. No one is calling for full invasion much less occupation.

We need real Patriots instead of owned neocon dual loyalist political opportunists.
We certainly do need patriots. But patriotism is love of country not obsessive paranoia. The dual loyalty canard was always puerile attempt to silence opposition, no better than me calling you an antisemite for no reason. Today, this canard is completely unsupportable. Noeconservatives are joining liberals in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Syria, just as they did in Egypt (a former allie), Tunisia, and in Libya where they and the Obama regime were virtually allied with Al Qaeda in the Maghreb. Surrounding Israel with Sunni Salafists is a threat to Israel, not as dire as a nuclear Iran, but a grave threat. It restores the situation of the 1960s and 1970s, where Israel was in constant struggle.