[marktwain]

Second, in a reflexive response to 9/11, we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, dumped over the regime in Libya, armed rebels to overthrow Bashar Assad in Syria, and backed Saudi intervention in a Yemeni civil war, creating a humanitarian crisis in that poorest of Arab countries that is exceeded in horrors only by the Syrian civil war.

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Pat is becoming unhinged. Afghanistan and Iraq were Bush policies, Libya, Syria, and Yemen are were Obama legacies.

The policies pushing them are almost entirely opposite.

Obama undermined Bush’s legacy in Afghanistan and Iraq, and destroyed Bush’s legacy in Libya, Yemen, and Syria.

Pat creates an inchoate mess when he tries to dump the two into the same basket of motives.

[donna]

The Bush Burden (2013)

He’s there in every corner of Congress where a microphone fronts a politician, there in Russia and the British Parliament and the Vatican. You may think George W. Bush is at home in his bathtub, painting pictures of his toenails, but in fact he’s the biggest presence in the debate over what to do in Syria.

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/the-bush-burden/?ref=opinion

[MrEdd]

Bush never had a legacy in Iraq.

[Louis Foxwell]

To be fair Pat is among those he most passionately disclaims. He is, as ever, the clearest of the muddled and his own worse enemy.

[Zhang Fei]

Buchanan’s shtick is making excuses for America’s enemies. The Kaiser, Hitler - just about anyone will do. The guy supported letting Saddam keep Kuwait. According to Pat, America’s real enemy is the eternal Jew.

[Theoria]

Absurd. Obama might have been the heavy hand in Syria, Libya, and the rest. But, it's the Bush wing that supported that. Condi, Cheney and the rest were/are cheerleaders of the Arab Spring! They helped to bring the matches!

[FreedomPoster]

Well put - I was thinking similar thoughts, but you really put it together.

[tinamina]

John McCain.