Buchanan Charges Neocons With 'Warmongering'

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[Captain Culpepper]

Ronald Reagan used to point out that he didn't leave the Democrat Party. The party left him.

Well, the opposite is true in Buchanan's case. While he has some still valid points concerning immigration, the culture war, etc. and overall mushiness of the Republican Party, his views over the past few years have turned downright bizarre.

Especially in this piece, he comes across as bitter, and personal in tone, imo. He hates the Bushes personally I think and his primary challenges, especially in '92 still stings.

What I most don't get about this piece, is that this is written by the same man who wrote "Death of the West", the population crisis and clash between East and West- Muslim v. non-Muslim.

His views on the Middle East and overall U.S. national interest, particularly in the post 9-11 world and Islamofascism reality we face is perplexing.

[larlaw]

I'm with the Captain. While he is still right on a number of issues (i.e. immigration and culture), in other respects Pat has completely gone off the deep end.

It is more than interesting how in his article Pat goes out of his way to mention almost exclusively Jewish advocates of war with Iraq, while conveniently leaving out more influential Non-Jewish hawks such as Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and for that matter the President himself. Pat apparently thinks that our top leaders have somehow been duped by an "amen corner" into fighting a war that is against the U.S. national interest, but is in the Israeli national interest. His rantings are both preposterous and offensive at the same time. Whether anti-semitism or a desperate cry for attention (or both), he has really come a long way from the true conservative cold warrior he once was.

[BlueLancer]

"That's why I pinged the Amen Corner Hatchet Team :o)"

Sorry that I'm so late, y'all ...

I had a tough time getting out of my Elders of Zion meeting, and THEN I couldn't find my hatchet.

Been one of those days, y'know.

See y'all at the next meeting ...

[Greg Luzinski]

Local Jew Feels Left Out of Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
The Onion
April 30, 1997

http://members.tripod.com/~jewishjokes/JEW-CONSP.HTM

SOUTHFIELD, MI--It is an hour past sunset on a brisk Thursday night, and, like their brethren around the globe, the Jews of this affluent Detroit suburb are gathered in synagogues, busily hatching plots for world domination through financial chicanery and media influence. But for Seth Nussbaum, it will be just another lonely evening.

"For some reason, they've decided to leave me out of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy," said Nussbaum, a 34-year-old computer programmer. "And I can't say it doesn't hurt."

While his fellow Jews are controlling the flow of billions of dollars of international currency and brokering multi million-dollar entertainment deals, on this quiet night Nussbaum is making himself a frozen pizza and watching ER, far removed from any money beyond the $28,000 annual salary he receives from his job at Cyntech Industries.

"Who's to say I wouldn't enjoy hoarding a little gold every now and then?" he said, his voice tinged with bitterness. "Believe me, I'd love to be able to sneak around behind the scenes like the Elders of Zion, pulling the strings and holding the real power in society. But I guess when it comes to working the Jerusalem-New York-L.A. triangle, I just wasn't one of the chosen people."

Unlike millions of other Jews around the world, Nussbaum holds no sway over the media, has no powerful friends within the Wall Street banking community or the Trilateral Commission, and has never run a major Hollywood studio.

In fact, Nussbaum doesn't even own so much as his own production company. "Spielberg, Geffen, Ovitz, Eisner, Katzenberg--those are the Jews who control Hollywood," Nussbaum said. "And there's countless other Jews calling the shots at every level of the entertainment industry, from agents to producers to directors. But me? I probably couldn't even get the studio backing for a $15 to $20 million romantic comedy with a mid-level star like Matthew Broderick."

And despite being a regular subscriber to The New York Times for seven years, Nussbaum has no powerful connections among the Jews who own that and every other newspaper in the United States.

"As a left-leaning Jew, I should enjoy vast influence over the press. I should be able use the papers and television stations I own to forward my biased, liberal Jewish agenda and get Israel-supporting Democratic candidates elected to Congress," said Nussbaum, sitting on the old futon he uses as a couch. "But somehow, that's just not the case."

Spurned by his own kind, Nussbaum has not even been able to gain admittance into a secondary world-domination conspiracy like the Masons. "They turned down my application," he said, sighing deeply, "when they found out I was Jewish. I guess for now I'll just have to resign myself to being Seth Nussbaum, computer programmer and powerless Jew."

[BlueLancer]

LOL ... Great Stuff!!!

[Cacophonous]

I believe Pat also thinks we were on the wrong side in WWII.

Pat said we were on the wrong side? When?

[Burkeman1]

I think you are thinking of Buckley's dad.

[L,TOWM]

Does bein' in the Amen Corner get me sum of thet there Swiss Bankur Money? I could shore use sum...

[Poohbah]

The Gnomes of Geneva are notoriously tight-fisted with their gelt...

[eleni121]

Buchanan strikes me as a wannabe of the first order. he has been rejected and ridiculed; his ego has been trashed repeatedly. He strikes me as going through a personal crisis each and every time I see him chattering on the media- very post menopausal depressing type.

Finally, his ruminations are being exploited by the left; that tells me that he is a vicious and angry man, with delusions of having been abandoned by the conservative right.

[Wavyhill]

As someone who constantly corrects paleocons when they're wrong, I have to do the same for you. He didn't consider running in 1984 as far as I can tell; and he also didn't run against Bush I in 1988.

[Wavyhill]

Actually, neoconservatives were a very real group of people. They were the mostly Jewish ex-Democrats and ex-leftists who saw how far their people had led us down the road to perdition during the 1970's, and became conservatives and Republicans. Since most of them still maintained their liberal goals even after rejecting the means, they had occasional squabbles with conservatives. Some of them advocated really harmful things such as campaign finance deform. Unfortunately, Buchanan has developed an obsession with them, and has thrown all conservatives who support Israel into the "neocon" label, even though many of them have no connection to neoconservatives whatsoever. (Incidentally, Buchanan seldom mentions the religious conservatives, who are about as far from "neocons" as you can get, but whose support for Israel makes most neocons seem like Saddam Hussein by comparison. I guess they just don't fit conveniently into Buchanan's labels).

[Wavyhill]

No, but he did state regrets in A Republic, Not an Empire that Hitler declared war on the US. He would have preferred us not to be in the European war at all.

[Wavyhill]

Little problem for you, there: Buchanan rejected the GOP establishment when Gingrich was in charge. At the time, they were for immigration restriction. He dumped them over trade issues and Israel, not immigration.

[Wavyhill]

Actually, Pat opposed the "draconian" cuts in the welfare state proposed by the Republican House in 1995. Who, exactly, was the RINO there? We had a chance to undo the New Deal and Pat blew it. Thanks, Pat.

[Wavyhill]

Actually, to be fair, he once was an important figure in the conservative movement. Unfortunately, he fell out with them, first of all, because he had a bad habit of constantly returning to the Jewish issue; second, because he was willing to sell out other conservative causes for it; and, third, because he began associating with people such as Justin Raimondo and Lenora Fulani who had never been part of conservatism and were only compatible with the "old" Pat Buchanan on the subject of Israel.