I don’t know about you, but when I want to know how William F. Buckley, Jr. would have felt about an issue, I always consult Arianna Huffington and Joe Scarborough /sarc. Ping to Today show list.
It would not surprise me to find that Ms. faux-Huffington fancies herself a psychic medium as well as a pundit and therefore regularly carries on conversations with Saint William of Connecticut. Nevertheless, there is some hard truth to her assertion. Buckley was a hardliner during the Cold War and never wavered in his unflinching defense of Christendom against the Soviet scourge. As regards the WWWOT, on the other hand, he was much less stalwart and would have found some common ground with Hagel on the question of the appropriate degree of U.S. engagement in endless wars and nation building exercises in the M.E. He quite openly questioned the wisdom of Pres. Bush’s Iraq policy, for example. I doubt he would have openly supported Hagel, however, by virtue of the latter’s limp support for Israel and occasional exhibitions of latent antisemitism. For these sins he had no charity.
Re-write/destroy the history of a dead man or a dead country. It's what plunderers do. Thanks for being out there, Mark...watching, reporting. Amazing FReeper consistency/longetivity BUMP!