Three years later, we are trying to extricate a U.S. army from Iraq with the least possible damage to U.S. security interests.
Again, he and Condi were warned that if these people were allowed to vote their convictions, they might just vote to throw us out and throw the Israelis into the sea.
Now that elections have been held, what do the returns show?
Propelled into or toward power have been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, pro-Iranian Shiite zealots in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Hamas in Gaza and on the West Bank.
Bush has unleashed a revolution in the Middle East, and it is everywhere bringing to power Islamic fundamentalists. Either we deal with them, or fight them or get out of the Middle East.
It was hilarious to watch him stumble and bumble about "democracies" in the aftermath of the election.
As always, Pat gets it right.
Go Pat Go!
As always happens in a thread on a Buchanan article...its clear most posters don't read or don't understand the point Buchanan is making. The US already sends billions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinians (the wisdom and Constitutionality of that aid...or any foreign aid for that matter...is another matter altogether). Now that Hamas has been chosen by the Palestinians in a democratic election for which the Administration pushed...what happens if we cut foreign aid off? Buchanan believes that:
If we and the Europeans cut off aid, and Israel refuses to remit to the Palestinians the taxes they collect, the Palestinians will be put through hell for voting the wrong way. The Arabs will call us hypocrites who believe in elections only if they produce the results we demand
Is Buchanan wrong? Most posters won't bother answering or even thinking about it...too busy calling Buchanan an "anti-Semite", a "bigot", a "lunatic", etc.