Posted on 10/01/2004 8:38:54 AM PDT by quidnunc
We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies. [1]
Thus did Pat Buchanan sum up his sentiments about the War on Terrorism in his new book Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency. The bulk of his book is dedicated to advancing his belief that terrorism is the oppressed Islamic world’s reaction to the “neoconservative” foreign policy, and that isolationism, rather than taking the war to the enemy, is the genuine conservative tradition. The policies that bother Pat most are the liberation of Iraq, “which did not attack us,” and support for Israel. (FPM columnist Don Feder has critiqued the book’s view of the Israeli question in these pages.) In pursuing his views, he has echoed the toxic rhetoric of the far-Left, repeating their assertions verbatim in this first manifesto of the Hate America Right.
This is most disturbingly underlined by Pat’s borrowing the Left’s “root causes” logic and his seeming absolution for 9/11:
U.S. dominance of the Middle East is not the corrective to terror. It is a cause of terror. Were we not over there, the 9/11 terrorists would not have been over here. [2]
Suicidal fanatics dedicated to imposing an Islamist interpretation of Shari’a law on all the world would have been “over here” as long as The Great Satan resisted Allah’s merciful, compassionate embrace. In Buchanan’s world, though, they are the righteous victims of Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. And by pinning the blame on his opponents’ policies, Buchanan has made terrorists the neoconservatives’ moral superiors.
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Which came first neocons or the islamofacists????
The Islamofascist have been around since before the Munich Olympics.
1972.
Just took people WAAAAAYYYYYY to long to wake up, smell the coffe ( Kofi? ) and see them for the threat they are.
You have a right to be wrong, too.
I think Pat became unhinged when he was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters in at least two elections.
Isolationism would actually work.
If we were willing to not allow any foreigners to enter our country, then we could refrain from meddling in what is happening overseas.
But most people would not agree to this.
As for Israel, we should ask ourselves of what benefit to our national interest it is to be allied with Israel.
If it not to our benefit, we should not ally ourselves with them just because we like them and approve of their government.
Some things are not done for benefits. Some things are done simply because they are the right things to do.
Sorry, but no it wouldn't. America has had to struggle since the days of the early colonists when we didn't have an army or a navy to speak of, and mankind has been warring against each other since before there were even true nation-states.
You'd be better off just arguing that Europeans should have never come to America in the first place.
The "conservative" movement dictated by our GOP "leadership" has taken a sharp turn leftward.
I'm quite pleased that PJB has stayed on the straight and narrow path of true conservatism.
He is a courageous patriot.
We'd also have to forbid the import or export of all goods and services.
Only if you consider that the threat to us comes from terrorists within this country. Global strategic thinking is needed to understand that the combination of rogue countries (Iran), the Islamic resurgence (starting with the fall of the Shah in 1979), China's hegemonic ambitions and Russia's seething resentment of their demotion on the world stage will combine to put deadly, deliverable weapons into the hands of the most evil people imaginable and ultimately cut us off from resources we need.
It's sad to see what Pat has become. I seriously thought about voting for him for president when he ran against Bush '41, but I eventually came to my senses and supported Bush. Pat is an isolationist to the core, and that influences all his views: military, economic, etc.
"..our" GOP leadership? Willie, didn't you formally denounced your membership in the GOP and declare yourself a third party member?
Israel is one of the few actual friends we have on this planet.
I don't know about you, but I don't bail on my buddies.
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