[x_plus_one]

The asleep-at-the-wheel congress has no idea whatsup in Russia let alone anywhere outside the beltway.

[Da Coyote]

Sorry, but the use of the term “phobic” identifies (to me, at least) the person using it as being one to whom we should pay absolutely no attention whatsoever.

[2ndDivisionVet]

When you’re quoting Ron Paul in the third sentence, you’re doing it wrong.

[MeganC]

Pat Buchanan is now dead to me.

[Zhang Fei]

I hope Pat is getting a good stipend from Putin.

[elhombrelibre]

He is pro Putin and anti-Israel. Pat’s got a weird pro-authoritarian streak that takes him off the reservation as a decent sort of chap. Lots of people, but not all of his critics, think it’s because of the Uncle he lost during the Holocaust. He got drunk and fell out of a guard tower.

[M Kehoe]

I know one person that would agree with all of what Pat said. That person would be Pooty Poot.

Wait, I didn't see one mention of Afghanistan in there?

5.56mm

[The_Reader_David]

This seems like a good thread on which to remind FReepers of the 2008 Quiz on World Affairs from my blog:

With the end of the Cold War, a Communist country, which had been organized along federal lines into constituent republics, dissolves into those republics, with each becoming a sovereign nation. In one of those republics, there is a province in which (partly due to population shifts during and just before the Communist era) the majority of the population is ethnically distinct from the now-independent republic. In that province there is a strong separatist movement engaged in an armed insurrection that has taken effective control of much of the province. As a result, the province has not participated in the parliamentary elections that elected the national government of the republic.

The premier of the republic orders military action to retake control of the province, which is, under international law, a part of the now-sovereign republic. In the press of a great military power (which, incidentally, has unfriendly relations with the democratically elected government of the republic due to its close ties to another great military power), there are breathless (false) reports of genocide being carried out as part of the attempt to reassert sovereignty over the province. The great power, without U.N. sanction and without taking care to avoid targetting civilian targets, launches a military campaign which strikes target throughout the republic, and is which it describes as a ‘humanitarian intervention’. The other great power, which was friendly to the government of the republic, protests and sends logistical support to the futile resistance by the republic’s government.

1. The great power launching the military strike on behalf of the separatists is

A. The United States
B. Russia
C. not enough information is provided

2. The republic fighting the separatists is

A. Georgia
B. Serbia
C. not enough information is provided

3. The separatists are

A. mostly Christian Ossetians
B. mostly Muslim Albanians
C. not enough information is provided

4. The year when this takes place is

A. 1999
B. 2008
C. not enough information is provided

The correct answer in each case is, of course, C.

[GeronL]

Pat Buchanan rewriting history

[GeronL]

Pat Buchanan accuses the House of propaganda straight from the cold war while totally ignoring all of Putin’s Leninist rhetoric from the last few years.

[duckln]

Russia is now the worlds' leader in defending western civilization.

Sadly we, FRs, and the people's house, more than Obama, are phobic in unwarranted bigoted hatred of Russia.

Buchanan, Ron and Rand have it right, the rest are drinking the coolade the neocon MSM has been peddling for years.

Forgive them, they know not what they doing, will be the reason we fail in defeating the Islamists.

[ifinnegan]

Has Buchanan renounced his US Citzienship yet?

Lord Pat-Paw.

[Romulus]

Pat is wasting his time. The neocons want war. Because patriotism. Or something.

[Zhang Fei]

Amusing comment from an internet poster:

Soviet era joke (anecdote, as Russians say):

Armenian Radio: Why did Lenin wear shoes and Stalin wore boots?

We reply: The sh)t was a lot deeper during Stalin's time.

The new Russian fashion is to wear knee length boots now.

My Russian wife reads me Russian newspapers with articles about Russia and Russian reactions towards the West, especially America. This past summer, Russian articles claimed that Europe and America would be hurt by sanctions, not Russia. Russia would become stronger, the West weaker. The dollar would collapse. Russia would turn off the gas and Europe would cave in. They showed a lot of bravado, back then.

Only now that the ruble is collapsing, the price of oil is tanking and sanctions are hurting Russian companies, Russia is talking about patriotism. There was even a picture in Argumenti y Facti of a Russian with a sack of potatoes over his shoulder, with the caption reading, “We can make do with less! Russians have always heeded the call to show their
patriotism and do with less when the country needs it!”

Putin and the propaganda machine are now evoking pictures of the Great Patriotic War and the need to sacrifice for the good of the state. He recently even evoked the ghost of HIT(er and blamed Russia’s troubles on the West! Loser people and loser countries always blame their troubles on others, instead of looking for the answer in themselves. As long as
Russia sees America and the West as its enemy, then they will never solve their own political and economic problems and join the first rank of nations. Russia likes to compare itself to America, as if that will raise them to the first rank. Better for Russia to compare itself to Brazil, Argentina and Indonesia.

[JadeEmperor]

Would good ole' Pat ever give Israel the same consideration and understanding he gives to Putin's Russia here? Or do the paleocons really hate the Jews more than they love America? Enough to fall into the lap of a KGB thugster who pipes "right-sounding" tune?

[Impy]

Pat, you ignorant slut. You and Ron Paul can both have a nice hot cup of STFU.