This is a really, really great read..

[wtf]

and from Pat Buchanan no less! I hope this stays kicked for at least a little while, I'm sure a ton of people here would enjoy this.

www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html

[NewHampshireDem]

1. Politics make for strange bedfellows, indeed ...

How f-ed up is this country when we on the left long for the good old days of men like Buchannan, Nixon, Reagan and the other "paleo-conservatives"? At least the Gipper had the good sense to get out of Beruit--even if it was too late.

We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.

Not in our lifetimes has America been so isolated from old friends. Far worse, President Bush is being lured into a trap baited for him by these neocons that could cost him his office and cause America to forfeit years of peace won for us by the sacrifices of two generations in the Cold War.

They charge us with anti-Semitism—i.e., a hatred of Jews for their faith, heritage, or ancestry. False. The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a “passionate attachment” to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what’s good for Israel is good for America.

Pretty harsh stuff ... strange to find the left and right united on this issue ... I guess when Pat calls for it we call it "isolationist" and when we on the left call for it we call it "non-intervationist." :shrug:

[Alerter_]

4. Wow! Look what they asked on TV!

In a rare moment in U.S. journalism, Tim Russert put this question directly to Richard Perle: “Can you assure American viewers ... that we’re in this situation against Saddam Hussein and his removal for American security interests? And what would be the link in terms of Israel?”

...

I can't believe they allowed that question on TV.

[Fire Bush]

2. It's funny

Pat was filling in today for conservative hack/shill Joe Scarbrough and compared to Joe and his fellow hack/shills he really comes across as a smart, level headed guy who doesn't get back in line for seconds of the kool-aid.

[pretzel4gore]

3. yes

true...unfortunately, buchanan thought he could 'have/eat his cake too' regards the corporate gangsterism that remains central to modern capitalism...iow it's ok to kill/destroy, as long as our resultant benefits are all lined up/assured.
buchanan's another christian (catholic) guy who better hope there isn't a god (justice, truth, innocence, beauty, accountability etc)

[LeftHander]

5. SNip from article

"Though we have said repeatedly that we admire much of what this president has done, he will not deserve re-election if he does not jettison the neoconservatives’ agenda of endless wars on the Islamic world that serve only the interests of a country other than the one he was elected to preserve and protect."

And the conservatives for years thought....Progressives and liberals would destroy America....Now they are waking up to the prospect they were lead down the primrose path by a bunch of liars who really didn't have any moral conviction at all.

[asthmaticeog]

6. kick