I have no doubts about Buchanan’s integrity. He is just badly wrong on the Middle East.
I have all sorts of doubts about Buchanan’s integrity. Integrity implies transparency of motives, but Buchanan has his own agenda and hides it behind double-talk and euphemisms. Even now, with Iranian-supplied (and very sophisticated) IEDs in our hands, Buchanan employs words like ‘allegedly’ when referring to Iranian support of the Iraq insurgency and acts as if our own somewhat feeble covert efforts to undermine the mullahs somehow justify Iranian perfidy throughout the region.
Someone already brought it up on this thread. Those of us who follow the news should follow the money. We grossly underestimate Saudi influence. Buchanan, like Baker, Carter, and others, has no doubt been bought and paid for. However, I don’t think it’s all about the money with Buchanan. His particular brand of ‘anti-Zionism’ is flatly, plainly antisemitism, that ancient malignancy, and Buchanan is fairly saturated with it. Paying Buchanan to sway public opinion against Israel would be like paying me to go fishing.
I have 1st hand knowledge of Mr. Buchanan’s beliefs in this area. He’s none-too-fond of the JOOOS! Islamists are his “strange bedfellows” nowadays. His sister is even more anti-semitic than he is!