Is the Bush Doctrine Dead?

HumanEventsOnline ^ | Oct 17, 2006 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[digger48]

You'll need more than a napkin to wipe up this crap by Pat

[Chi-townChief]

Pat ... blow this !!!

[hershey]

MSNBC last night -- a man had written a book analyzing the post cold war world and America's place/actions. He said, we have only ourselves to blame for the pickle we're in. To avoid 'Fortress America', we tried globalizing capitalism, spreading the wealth as it were, but this has failed. Yada Yada Yada...

[xjcsa]

As some of us wrote at the time, to call Iran and Iraq, mortal enemies in the eight-year war of the '80s that took a million lives, an "axis" was absurd.

Iran and Iraq to Exchange Intelligence - a headline from *today*. Pat's a moron, though for many more reasons than this.

[hershey]

The author of that book wasn't Pat.

[RexBeach]

Hell, I thought it was a great speech.

[MNJohnnie]

More rabid stupidity from the Know Nothings. Sorry but no one here buys the "We need to run away and hide under our beds" Neo Isolationist ignorance from the Buchannanites.

We followed this dogma all thru the 1980s and 1990s, we got 09-11-01 for it. Too bad Pat Buchannan is too arrogantly ignorant to grasp the reality that his political dogma is DEAD. It dies 09-11-01

[aynrandfreak]

I detest Buchanan, but to the question, I do think the Bush Doctrine is dead.

Bush was on with O'Reilly last night saying that Iran's involvement with the Iraqi insurgency was "troubling" to him. It should be an considered an act of war.

[MNJohnnie]

Well of course. MSNBC is the bottom of the rating heap because they keep giving creditility to tin foil hat wearing complete ignorants like the author you cite. As usual the Neo Isolationists are completely divorced from any sort of grasp of reality.

[MNJohnnie]

The only thing dead here is Pat Buchannan's crediblity.

[jveritas]

Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? No.
Is Pat Buchanan brain dead? Yes, absolutely and it has been dead for a very long time.

[BigSkyFreeper]

No, it's not dead, but it's Springtime In Germany.

[zarf]

Nuke weapons, terror groups seeking to attack via stealth.....is Pat living the 50's or what?

It's breath taking how we expect to evoke revolutionary changes overnight. This is an evolutionary process that we must encourage over decades....can our microwave society get a clue or should we just bag it because it won't come in a vacuum sealed pouch ready for instant serving?

in addition why does the Bush doctrine require one method to enforce? Why not the the 2 steps forward one step back utilizing the terrorist method of patience and determination over a long period of time?

I suggest that Pat is a simplistic, one note thinker if he seriously (which I doubt) buys his own argument.

[thoughtomator]

However, in return for iron-clad assurances they have opened up all nuclear programs to inspection and given up further development of nuclear weapons, we should offer the North Koreans...

...absolutely nothing at all, a precisely equivalent value. Though most of this article is pretty good - the indictment of the failed Bush Doctrine is sound - he blew it completely in the conclusion. The only doctrine to apply is the proven Reagan Doctrine.

[1035rep]

Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? No. Is Pat Buchanan brain dead? Yes, absolutely and it has been dead for a very long time.

Truth bump! 

[JerseyDvl]

Isn't this Headline Dead?
I have seen this headline or some variation of it 100 times now.
Paging Dr. Dean....Dr. Demento... The media needs a new template ASAP.

[Alberta's Child]

Singling out Iran, Iraq and North Korea as state sponsors of terror seeking weapons of mass destruction, Bush yoked them together in an "axis of evil" and issued this ultimatum: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."

The most ridiculous thing about this statement was that North Korea was only added to this "axis of evil" because the Bush administration didn't want to sound like it was singling out Islamic countries.

[paulcissa]

"You'll need more than a napkin to wipe up this crap by Pat

Mop on isle 3!

[backtothestreets]

Because of the bluster-and-bluff of President Bush, the United States is today eyeball-to-eyeball with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs, and neither of these regimes appears ready to blink

I like Pat's stands on some issues. This is not one of them. Neither the Iranian nor North Korean nuclear programs were born as a result of the speech given by President Bush. Pat needs to clean his glasses, his ears, then look and listen again. Then again, maybe Pat just needs to stop blinking.