I'm sure it is.
Fleming is an Aristotelian, not a Nazi.
Fleming is neither an Aristotelian nor a Nazi.
He is a tacit racialist sympathizer (i.e. his championing of the openly racialist Sam Francis) and, while an admirer of Aristotle, his reasoning involves nothing remotely approaching Aristotelian metaphysical clarity.
And Buchanan subscribes to Chronicles.
Are you honestly claiming that Buchanan - a man who is clearly an enthusiast for political and military history - never heard the phrase in his life until he scanned the ads in a recent issue of Chronicles?
Don't take us for idiots.
It is always amusing to see Catholics attack Buchanan, just because he has consistently opposed the anti-Catholic neocon philosophy which they have embraced.
This statement is disingenuous in a number of ways.
Would it be OK if Catholics criticized Buchanan because he embraced the agenda of the anti-Catholic Bolshevik Lenora Fulani? Would that be justified?
Also, I don't know the sense in which you use the term "neocon". Please direct me to a philosophical work which you consider to be "neocon" which attacks Catholicism.
Maybe a book by Michael Novak?
Buchanan is an American patriot and a traditional Catholic, not a "Nazi."
I never called him one and I do not believe that he is one. If I assumed he was one, I wouldn't be surprised to see him using a hackneyed phrase so closely associated with Nazism.
Perhaps he is indeed a traditional Catholic. I'm less sanguine about his status as an American patriot.
Of course the "Catholics" who consider themselves the most traditional of America's Catholic population are America-haters like Solange Hertz, Anthony Cekada, Richard Williamson and the SSPV, among others.
I am claiming that non-Nazis use the phrase "blood and soil." You set out to smear Buchanan, and then erupt in non-sequiturs when I point out other conservatives who use the phrase.
>>>>>Maybe a book by Michael Novak?
Novak is a joke. A dissenter on Humanae Vitae, an open admirer of Andrew Sullivan's pro-sodomy antics, and a man who claimed that Latin America's problem is that it didn't experience the Reformation. Which strikes me, as it struck Tom Fleming, as a pretty outrageous statement for a supposed Catholic theologian to make.
Of course, the neocons have no problem embracing an open and notorious anti-Catholic bigot, such as Christopher Hitchens. This is unsurprising, since their warmed over Trotskyism has nothing to do with Christianity.