Posted on 08/01/2006 11:22:56 AM PDT by SJackson
Pat Buchanan, not satisfied merely looking like a Herblock depiction of a bigot, a man who never allows an opportunity to slam Israel slip through his fingers, has been on a rampage because Israel has finally gone after the murderous thugs and sadists of Hezbollah.
The fact that the terrorists don’t wear uniforms means that every time the Israelis kill one of them, Buchanan and his ilk get to insist that Israel is targeting civilians. Buchanan’s concern for civilians isn’t nearly so evident when it’s Jews who are targeted by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PLO’s suicide bombers.
One of the sillier things Israel has done in recent years was to fall for the land for peace con game. They surrendered territory and any number of settlements as a gesture of good will. Good will gestures made to terrorists and tyrants are the height of folly and cowardice, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the Arabs or Adolf Hitler. Offer your hand to the tiger and don’t expect him to stop nibbling when he gets to your wrist.
Because Israel plays such a prominent role in the news, and because it’s managed, against all odds, to survive for 58 years, one can easily over-estimate its actual place in the world. The fact of the matter is that unless you were at the top of your geography class, you’d be hard-pressed to find it on your globe. To give you a clear idea of what Israel is up against, keep in mind that there are 22 countries in the Arab League. The League encompasses 5,200,000 square miles; Israel was 8,000 square miles before giving up the aforementioned turf. What’s more, there are 312 million people living in those 22 countries. Israel’s population is six million, more than a million of whom are Arabs.
So far as Buchanan and his friends are concerned, it would seem that the only thing that’s required to make Israel the jewel of the Middle East is for those five million Jews to disappear.
You have to wonder what it is about those 8,000 square miles that the Arabs covet. It’s not as if Israel sits on huge oil deposits. Why aren’t five million square miles enough? I mean, if you had five million dollars, would you cry yourself to sleep every night because you didn’t have $5,008,000?
Let’s face it -- before the Jews built universities, hospitals and concert halls, and planted trees and crops, the place was nothing but a desert.
So many people are happy to trumpet “No blood for oil.” How is it that we never hear them, or Mr. Buchanan, telling the Arabs, “No blood for sand”?
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I don't understand why AIPAC or any other powerful Jewish organization can't shut Pat Buchanan up.
Ping! Broadside at Pat Buchanan!
We need the clowns.
BOO!
And hopefully he's re-loading for the next pass. Come around hard right!
Don't you mean, JOO?
Aren't Clowns supposed to make you laugh?
Every time Pat says anything, I see people bending out of shape, turning purple with anger. Isreali Press dubbed him American Hitler when he ran for Presidency and they were not smiling at all.
Funny thing is that Pat is usually viciously attacked and he only laughs out louder in response, while mocking his attackers.
How does he manage this inner peace?
If Pat's ideas were followed and Israel was abandoned to the fanatics, they'd be back for more somewhere else. These nuts cannot be appeased. Pat acts like they've legitimate claims. If these crazies weren't fighting Israel, they'd be fighting someone else. It's their nature; it's not their grievances that make them this way.
Pat's headed down the PCRoberts road, i.e., a doddering septuagenarian who has to wear a drool cup.
Psychotropic drugs?
Cites Free Speech for one. The other? He's a useful tool for the Left.
They paint him as a conservative Christian Republican.
He's not the first two, and I don't know if he's currently registered as a Republican but he's hardly a spokesman for them.
The more they parade him about, though, the less useful he becomes. More and more people are denouncing him as the anti-semite he is..in public. they used to whisper it in the shadows and simply ignore that "unpleasantness" about him.
Dear Pat:
I want my '92 primary vote back.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rich
Because then they'd have to confront the real enemy--Islam.
Hardly. Buchanan remains one of the most intelligent commentators and quickest debaters on TV.
Yes, Nazi Pat is a Master Debater.
He hates Jews, particularly neo-cons in America and those in Israel.
He only appears, occasionally, on MSNBC when Chris Matthews needs a "conservative" to trash George Bush.
Pat's presence, I predict, will be relegated to his dying magazine and lewrockwell.com in the very near future.
So how come most FReepers aren't saying the same thing about Mel Gibson? Personally I think what Buchanan, Roberts, et. al., do is far worse than some drunken Hollywood celeb's tirade.
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