Now that one's gonna leave a mark. As I have stated repeatedly, Bush's problem wasn't that he acted unilaterally, it was that he attempted to bring the UN in and didn't jump when they backtracked on their earlier resolutions. Their hatred wasn't for a cowboy, it was for an apostate.
This is one of those random-notes columns that doesn't really have a central theme, but it seems clear to me that VDH is still a little too fond of the MSM's take on the hysteria and unreason present in those who oppose 0bama's programs. Taking Pat Buchanan seriously as a historian is a waste of time, and proposing that his is any sort of mainstream thought on the antecedents to the Second World War is simply a dry hole. It isn't really even useful as a straw man.
As for Charles Johnson, I prefer to let that gentleman speak for himself. What has happened to him is at least partly a function of him taking the same sorts of things seriously that VDH appears to. The radical fringe on the Right is far, far more marginalized and irrelevant than that same fringe on the Left. There isn't an equivalency, there isn't even anything close to one.
Take a look at Charles Johnson’s website. Maybe you have no idea of how good it used to be. And how he told Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch) to drop dead and BTW Charles designed the original Jihad Watch website
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Johnson has alienated most of the older anti-Jihad websites. He has mostly reverted back to liberalism
I don’t expect VDH to be aware of this history