The Real German Warning for Cold War II (Pat Buchanan)

The American Conservative ^ | March 7, 2014 | Pat Buchanan

[ansel12]

It was your choice to call yourself Colonel, if you had served under Reagan, you might have remembered how incredibly aggressive he was in confronting the Communists all over the world, and his massive military buildup and aggressive military exercises, and operations and clandestine/mercenary operations globally.

It was pretty exciting serving under Reagan, scary, tense, but exciting, it was also pretty deadly since we averaged over 2200 military dead a year under Reagan, for a total of almost 18,000.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I never meant the screen name to suggest I was actually a colonel. At the time I picked the name, I was at a loss what to call myself and all I could think of was the old TV character Captain Kangaroo. If I had to do it all over again, I'd call myself Arnold Ziffel.

I think Reagan and his policy was the perfect match for the times. I just think it is not the long term way for today while the rest of the world grows fat living of our exertions.

[Dagnabitt]

Old anti-Semite Pat outdoes himself here, managing to make excuses for Adolf Hitler.

[Cen-Tejas]

Amen!!!

[ansel12]

To choose the screen name “Colonel” does seem odd, since the focus of your interest and posting, seems to be military issues and war.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Versailles was no excuse, but a cause. With a realistic, pragmatic treaty, Hitler would have remained well on the margin of German political life and none of us would have even heard of him.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I wouldn’t read too much into mere screen names, else we would think an alligator, a Civil War general and a chapter in the Bible were posting on this thread.

[ansel12]

I’m not reading too much into a guy choosing the name Colonel who focuses on military and war issues.

I asked about Reagan because of your strange post 17, Reagan was an incredibly aggressive meddler, it is how he saved the world from the Soviet Empire.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

We have a failure to communicate. When I said we elected meddlers since Reagan, I meant Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama, not Reagan himself.

Don't you think the two Bushes, Clinton and Obama deserve to be called international meddlers?

[ansel12]

Colonel, just read my posts to you, I keep posting a correction to what you implied about Reagan.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I think it was my fault because of my imprecise grammar, but I would never cast such slurs on Reagan who was the perfect man to master such a critical moment in history.

[ansel12]

You aren’t reading my posts to you.

“”Reagan was an incredibly aggressive meddler, it is how he saved the world from the Soviet Empire.””

“” if you had served under Reagan, you might have remembered how incredibly aggressive he was in confronting the Communists all over the world, and his massive military buildup and aggressive military exercises, and operations and clandestine/mercenary operations globally.

It was pretty exciting serving under Reagan, scary, tense, but exciting, it was also pretty deadly since we averaged over 2200 military dead a year under Reagan, for a total of almost 18,000.””

[Colonel Kangaroo]

What was right and proper for Reagan to do in the one time special case of the Cold War does not apply when Europe is on its feet, Communism destroyed and the nation in debt. In the long run, our nation cannot survive being on a continual war footing. Do you not think the warnings of Washington and Madison are still valid?

[ansel12]

Your arguments were being made before Reagan and during Reagan, and now, after Reagan.

Colonel, you are being too cute when you try to use Reagan.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

What do you think about Washington and Madison’s warnings against foreign entanglements and continual war?

[x]

It's about what Putin believes, not about how Russia was actually treated.

I'd say the same thing about Germany after WWI. What Germans did when they won wars wasn't so terribly different from what the Allies put them through.

[ansel12]

I can see why you wanted to pretend to be a Colonel, and want to mislead people on Reagan, who we elected to end the weakness that we had seen was putting the world in danger.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

You’ve not answered my question about Washington and Madison.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

And in the post above, I told you exactly why I pretended to be a colonel- it was because I didn’t think about Arnold Ziffel that day.

[ansel12]

LOL, you have a couple of centuries old quotes.

What was Washington’s policy on declaring war on Japan to protect Hawaii?, or on invading Grenada, or Reagan having 100s of thousands of troops, a massive army, in Europe during peacetime?