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Pat Buchanan hasn't gotten as much attention as he has lately since he ran for President, and I find the guy growing on me. I'll never agree with him on most things, but I respect the honest way he's speaking his mind. He was against the war from the beginning, but he's not about to give the Democrats a pass. He's holding everybody's feet to the fire, regardless of party, and I wonder if maybe we can't take a lesson from Pat. If there is a line that can legitimately be drawn in this country, isn't it really the people versus the politicians? They've maneuvered us into going for each others' throats, and maybe we should wise up and not let them pull those strings any more.

Buchanan has been "rehabilitated" due solely to his anti-war stance. So easy to forget the rest of his beliefs.

He is an isolationist, as are some other politicians. Ron Paul comes to mind, as well. They make the point that our Founders felt the same way, back when it took a month to cross an ocean, and our southern border was in Georgia. It's an appealing philosophy: there's a lot of satisfaction in thinking about telling the ungrateful bastards whose freedom we've been defending for sixty years to go to hell, and pull back to our own borders. The oceans are still wide enough to keep the stench of millions of corpses from our shores.

But as I pointed out in my previous post, go over all the "unnecessary" conflicts we have been in for the past half century (WWII was the last time anyone declared official war on the U.S.) and tell me what the outcomes would have been had we just turned our backs. Where would NATO fit, or U.S. bases overseas?

More recently, the first Gulf War is demonstrably the only reason Saddam did not have nuclear weapons long before 9/11. Buchanan was against it.

Put it this way: I wish he were right. But I don't think he is.

You might want to read this. I haven't yet, but am told it explains a lot about his views on this subject.

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