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AuH20
07-24-2012, 09:35 AM
I wish Ron could articulate this message as forcefully and commanding as Pat does. Wow!!!

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e52c592a-d4ad-11e1-bb88-00144feabdc0.html#axzz21YP1EM3F



We must roll up the empire and put America first again. We should swiftly complete Barack Obama’s work, end the war in Afghanistan and close US bases in central Asia. We should tell Ukraine and Georgia that Nato membership is closed. No US interest there justifies risking a clash with Russia. Let us tell Vladimir Putin that if he stays out of our yard, we will stay out of his.

Half a century ago, Dwight Eisenhower told John F. Kennedy to start pulling troops out of Europe, or else the continent would end up permanently dependent on the US. Was Ike not right? Europeans should take full responsibility for their own defence. The near debacle in Libya, where Britain and France might have been fought to exhaustion by Muammer Gaddafi had not the US intervened, exposed the atrophied state of Nato’s European members.

South Korea has a population twice that of North Korea and an economy 40 times as large. What are US soldiers still doing in the demilitarised zone? The frontier that will determine the fate of the US is not the 38th parallel, but the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.

Elsewhere in Asia, it is Russia’s land that China covets but India’s that China holds. Vietnam and the Philippines are defying Beijing’s claims to the Spratly Islands. Japan is showing a resolve to hold the Senkaku Islands. Let the neighbours do the containment.

In the Islamic world, Victor Hugo’s dictum applies: stronger than all the armies of earth is the power of an idea whose time has come. Islamic fundamentalism and ethno-nationalism, the two forces tearing countries apart from central Africa to south Asia, are not problems that can be solved by Seal Team Six.

Let us cease our interventions and call a halt to our endless hectoring. How other nations rule themselves is not really the US’s business. If there is nation-building to be done, let it begin here. The watchword of the Romney campaign and presidency should be enlightened nationalism. Time, again, to put America first.

Origanalist
07-24-2012, 09:39 AM
Why are you quoting that old racist white guy?

AuH20
07-24-2012, 09:42 AM
Why are you quoting that old racist white guy?

He doesn't know anything. Haven't you heard?? He's old and white & incapable of dissecting the complex world we live in. :)

ravedown
07-24-2012, 09:44 AM
well said- pat gets it about 90% right. not sure i can go along with his concept of 'enlightened nationalism' or that its romney's or obama's job to nation build here etc. still- great info. hope it gets picked up by more media outlets.

angelatc
07-24-2012, 09:44 AM
Pat Buchanan is awesome. IF he had been President we'd likely not all be hanging out here today.

The liberals poisoned that well though.

Origanalist
07-24-2012, 09:47 AM
Pat Buchanan is awesome. IF he had been President we'd likely not all be hanging out here today.

The liberals poisoned that well though.

We can only guess how things might have been. It's nice to imagine though, isn't it? Think of the wars we may never have seen

ExPatPaki
07-24-2012, 09:49 AM
Pat knows his history. I don't get why he is anti-marijuana though.

AuH20
07-24-2012, 10:06 AM
He wrote another piece pulverizing Obama's "You Didn't Built That" Meme:

http://buchanan.org/blog/obamas-worship-of-centralized-power-5115


Even with this preamble, Romney seems to have it right. Obama sees government as indispensable. Without the roads and bridges that government builds, without the teachers government provides, no one succeeds. It takes a village.

Yet Obama’s narrative does not tell us why some succeed and others fail. Does Obama understand America? For he surely does not seem to understand her history as once taught to every schoolchild.

From Jamestown in 1607 to Yorktown in 1781, there was no federal government. There was no United States. Yet generations of colonists had built forts, cleared lands, created farms, established workshops. Americans fed, clothed and housed themselves, creating one of the highest standards of living on earth for 3 million people.

How could the U.S. government have built the roads and bridges if the U.S. government did not exist before 1789? There were no public schools until the 19th century. Colleges were the creations of religious denominations. The Pell grant had not yet been invented.

Was government indispensable to Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, Robert Fulton’s invention of the steam boat, Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone, Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of the radio and Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb, and just about everything else?

Did Wilbur and Orville Wright learn how to build bicycles in a CETA program? Were the feds responsible for the flight at Kitty Hawk?



I could only imagine Pat in a debate against Obama. It would be an absolute bloodbath. Many progressives discount America until Reconstruction, which explains why they are so clueless or duplicitious. :)

RonRules
07-24-2012, 11:50 AM
Pat Buchanan is awesome.

He got vote flipped back in 1996. (find the Louisiana charts)

He got flipped BECAUSE he was awesome.