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Pat's isolationism is not my cup of tea

I'm not a great fan of Buchanan, either, though I think he is a worthy (and amusing) foil to the self-satisfied, consumer-tested, Beltway-approved "conservatism" of the Republican establishment.

As for isolationsim, I'm beginning to think that George Washington really was our greatest president and that his advice could have prevented a great many troubles. Why do we need to become so entangled in other peoples' tribal wars? I'll take isolationism over Wilsonian triumphalism any day.

We have had war declared on us. We are cleaning up a mess we left after 91...hopefully we will show a relatively just nation can exist in the ME.

We cannot hide here and ignore it. I have spoken more broadly to this in previous posts on this thread.

One can disagree with some details of his argument, but overall Buchanan is right, as you observed, if only (I observe) because he likes to annoy the knee-jerk conservatives. I think it has something to do with the quote below, but also with the strange habit in this country of regarding anyone who ran for POTUS and lost a complete loser. Nearly identical responses are vomited out by these pseudo-thinkers to anything Alan Keyes has to say, or Jerry Brown, or Ross Perot, each one of whom was at one time or another a godlike figure to many, and still may have an interesting thing or two to say.

That said, Buchanan has a shtick to maintain and a specific seat to occupy in the pantheon of Beltway pundits, and that's how he earns his living. Nobody will pay him to produce milquetoast. When I see him occasionally on Mc Laugh-In Hour I get the impression he thinks it's all a joke...

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- (attributed to) Admiral Hyman G. Rickover