Check this article out....by Buchanan!!
Do I have to .. I'm not liking the title
Thanks for the ping, Txsleuth!
Zogby has a reputation for inaccurate polling in this country. I am very suspicious of who was polled in these countries -- was it leaders, regular folk, just who?
It also does not take into account that in the named countries it can be on pain of death to say something that can be construed as critical of their government.
Zogby polls pretty far to the left in this country. I think that he may have been looking for a particular conclusion in his Middle East poll.
I don't think that I have illusions. The Middle East has known only one basic way and that's pretty much the way life is down there. So we are not the heros.
But I do know that 200,000 Jordanians protested in the streets of Amman Jordan when Zawahiri had bombed the wedding party. And I do remember reading that after the first elections in Iraq and the elections in the Palestinian authority came, there was tremendous pressure on Egypt to open their political system more.
And I do know that before the war, Iraqis were hoping for the Americans to liberate them. A great story was documented by the minister who went to be a human shield and was overwhelmed by the persuasion by the taxi driver that almost every Iraqi wanted this war and the Iraqis knew that the Americans are good.
Had it not been for what we are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, it would have been unthinkable to exert effective pressure on Syria to start withdrawing from Lebanon.
It's not a pretty picture, but it's necessary. We've tried the diplomacy of 16th century courtesans and talk gets us nowhere. And the brutes continue to behave as brutes but get well fed at the UN. We're done.
Now Pat may be a nice man who means well, but he always winds up aiming for Smoot-Hawley part deux, and that's not a smart direction for a myriad of reasons.
Buchanan is getting more and more marginalized every single day. Thankfully, he has no effective authority within the government. I put him in the Algore category. LOL