Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "Imperial Wars -- Then and Now"

WND.com ^ | 08-13-03 | Buchanan, Patrick J.

[nothingnew]

Hope you have a circa 1950's bomb shelter. With your reasoning, you should have one.

FMCDH

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thanks for the Clintonian parsing of words. He said "a part of the world" not "a country". Iraq is in the Middle East, which is most definitely a part of the world that is vital to America.

LOL!

Read the very first paragraph of the article. He is clearly is referring to Iraq and war in Iraq.

Having found neither weapons of mass destruction nor a link to 9-11, the White House has retreated into its fallback position. It now defends Operation Iraqi Freedom as a necessary war to rid the Middle East of a brutal dictatorship and replace it with a democracy.

[onedoug]

Simply, state sponsored terrorism fuels a war for the survival of Judeo-Christian civilization, which I personally believe is worth preserving.

Two regimes have now been taken down in this war. They most likely will not be the last.

That others may, or will, I will never surrender what I feel is the divine purpose for history to move forward toward moral and spiritual redemption.

[Alberta's Child]

The United States is the only country int he world that would fight a war on Islamic terror by sending soldiers halfway around the world, while having Islamic terrorists serving as full-fledged members of the U.S. military, wearing U.S. military uniforms, sleeping in barracks with U.S. soldiers, etc.

Pardon me for being cynical, but I've got to sign off for a few minutes while I barf under my desk.

[u-89]

If America peaceably traded with all nations and otherwise minded its own business we wouldn't have to fear about needing bomb shelters.

BTW I'm not a bomb shelter kind of person even with the state of affairs as they are. I'll die when my time comes one way or the other and I'm not wasting effort or happiness worrying about it.

[onedoug]

I guess you feel we'll lose then. Not sorry I won't join you. Thanks.

[u-89]

So we're on a devine mission to conquer the world are we? interesting to know how other people view things. Thanks for the insight and amusment.

[kaktuskid]

Tell that to the islamofacists!

[u-89]

Tell them what exactly?

[Alberta's Child]

I have no problem whatsoever in fighting a war on Islamic terrorism. But there are some rules that I will always abide by:

1. I will not do so with a military uniform on.

2. I will not take orders from any military or civilian "leader."

3. Any U.S. "law enforcement" official or agency who gets in my way will be considered an enemy of this nation.

Does this sound like a good approach?

[freedomcrusader]

Read the last sentence: George Bush may prove to be a well-intentioned president who embroiled us in decades of wars in a part of the world that was never vital to America.

Pat clearly refers to a part of the world. The part of the world in which Iraq lies is the Middle East, which is vitally important to America. Pat is flat out wrong to say that by being in Iraq, we're not in a part of the world that was never vital to America.

[freedomcrusader]

oops - should be "Pat is flat out wrong to sat that by being in Iraq, we're in a part of the world that was never vital to America."

[onedoug]

I'm glad we have a professional military that carries out its orders. Thanks.

[af_vet_rr]

Saddam was demonstrably linked to funding suicide bombers in Israel, and too many Americans were killed in those attacks, alone.

That, among myriad other reasons, was always enough for me to want to take out that psycho-sexual maniac and his depraved family and regime.

Do you want to take out the Saudis? they probably funneled a lot more money/support into the suicide bombers in Israel, not to mention the 9/11 hijackers were mostly Saudi. The Saudis in those planes killed more Americans on 9/11 than the Iraqis did in '91 or this year.

It's a double standard and it ticks me off. I better stop before I go into a rant about the Saudis.

[Alberta's Child]

Are you glad that our professional military includes the occasional Islamic terrorist who has a habit of throwing hand grenades in his officer's tent?

[onedoug]

You're welcome. God Bless You, too.

The Future is Muslim, European or American

[Alberta's Child]

If this "professional military" had sent you to Vietnam and sent you on patrol in a rice paddie with a Viet Cong guerilla for a partner, I suspect your faith in our "professional military" would be somewhat diminished.

[onedoug]

Evil does not necessitate the abandonment of good, but requires more good.

You may return to vomiting now.

[Alberta's Child]

Evil does not necessitate the abandonment of good, but requires more good.

Whatever that's supposed to mean . . .

The U.S. ostensibly wages this so-called "war on terror" in Iraq, but the poor bastard in the U.S. Army who stands up and complains about the strange Islamic fellow in his platoon named Mohammed al-AkbarKandalaharaSaidBinAlAmin-el would get thrown out of the military for being insensitive to Muslims.

If any of this makes sense to you, please let me know.

[eddiespaghetti]

If we hadn't been in the Philippines in 1898

Do you think the Germans or the Japanese WOULDN'T HAVE?