[Colonel Kangaroo]

Hypocrisy is the inevitable result of the endless international meddling that both the liberal and conservative wings of our bipartisan elite engage in. From John Kerry to John McCain to John Bolton, they have done more damage to long range American security than any foreign power could.

[SampleMan]

First an foremost, I don't care about democracy that much.

I would rather have king that respected my individual rights than 60% of the population that don't.

There is nothing mutually exclusive about democracy and tyranny. One of our underlying problems is that our media thinks democracy is a synonym for freedom.

[Vigilanteman]

Normally, I dismiss much of what Pat Buchanan writes because of his blind spot for anything involving "Jooze".

But when the topic is something else, he is often logical and spot on and such is the case here.

[alloysteel]

Syria? Not a problem. Just send in a little clandestine help to bring down the governing body which was put in power and is acting “illegitimately”. Result? Hundreds of thousands dead, region in chaos, threat of the unrest spreading far beyond the borders of Syria or even the confines of the entire Middle East.

The Ukraine? Also not a problem. Just send in a little clandestine help to bring down the governing body which was put in power and is acting “illegitimately”. Result? That is still being written, but the forecast is not so good, considering the example of Syria.

The Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut situated in Washington, one-time capital of the nation once known as “the United States of America”, has pursued perhaps the most reckless and incompetent foreign policy since the Persian Empire under Xerxes I went to war against Sparta and the remainder of the Greek city-states. Alas, in this world of high-tech warfare, they have, wittingly or otherwise, engineered perhaps on of the greatest plunges back into the depths of decivilization since the fall of Rome.

The eclipse of “democracy” is probably the least of the treasures humanity shall have lost.

[KoRn]

Looks like the people of Ukraine may just have to fight about it(amongst themselves).

[Rockingham]

Pat Buchanan is telling only half the story in declaring that "In 2010, Viktor Yanukovych, in what neutral observers called a free and fair election, was chosen president. His term ends in 2015."

After getting elected, Yanukovych: imprisoned Yulia Tymoshenko, his principal political opponent, on highly questionable grounds; abused state assets and power to campaign for the election of his allies to Parliament, which led to international criticism of the election as tainted and irregular; approved brutal police tactics and the use of thugs against peaceful and well-disciplined protesters; enacted a set of laws that effectively criminalized opposition to the government; and, in a reversal of policy, rejected a previously negotiated affiliation agreement with the European Union and made an agreement with Russia that will subordinates the Ukraine to Russia and the circle of corrupt oligarchs that support Putin and his corrupt regime.

At the least, the omission of these facts makes for a false account of what is happening in the Ukraine. Or, is it that Buchanan regards such conduct as acceptable in a democracy or at least not a basis for criticism?

[Candor7]

What did Yanukovych do to deserve ouster by the street? He chose Russia over Europe.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What did Obama do to deserve ouster by the street? He chose socialist welfare dependency over capitalist enterprise freedom.

Word.

People everywhere so tire of tyrannical socialist bureaucrats to the point where civil disobedience is inevitable.

The natural state of human kind is freedom from tyranny.Obama and religio-fascists take notice!

[SeminoleCounty]

Buchanan gets it right here...best for US to stay out...but the Liberal Globalist mentality of our govt....and many on FR...is to intervene on behalf of the EU.

[apillar]

Russia is NOT going to let Ukraine go, if the EU and Obama push it to far Russia may very well do the same thing it did with Georgia and send in the Russian Army...

[Leaning Right]

Hypocrisy is the inevitable result of the endless international meddling that both the liberal and conservative wings of our bipartisan elite engage in.

The United States firmly believes that people have the right to freely chose their own future. As long as those people are in some foreign country. Try it in the United States and you'll get the General Sherman treatment.

[rmlew]

Hypocrisy is the inevitable result of the endless international meddling that both the liberal and conservative wings of our bipartisan elite engage in. From John Kerry to John McCain to John Bolton, they have done more damage to long range American security than any foreign power could.
Foreign meddling? You mean like Russia trying to take over Ukraine.
Ukrainians were killed and ethnically cleansed by the USSR. And you and Buchanan wish to acknoledge the merit of Stalin's actions now. Have you no decency of shame?
I have a reason to hate Ukranian nationalists, you don't. My father is still alive and remembers what Ukranian nationalists did with the Nazis and then how they gleefully watched the Soviets expell Poles and Jews from Galicia in 1945. Yet, I wish the Ukranians to be free of both KGB Russia and the EU-SSR.
Buchanan, on the other hand, betrays both his nationalism and anti-communism in his only allegence these days, isolationism. He will make any promise, revise history as needed, and lie to heaven and hell to promote it. And he has in the last 16 years. There are no Islamists, communists, or nazis he will not shill for to promote his ideology. He has no shame. The question is do you, CK?