Harry S. Truman?
When someone asks why we’re still in Germany, I think they have a point and wonder how much money we could save by bringing those troops home. When they ask why we still have military forces ready to enagage a country WE ARE STILL AT WAR WITH, I wonder whether they forgot to take their meds.
pat buchanan is a moron.....footnote in history, his father was injured in WW2....he fell out of a deathcamp watchtower
Oh, and then there's this:
From 1941 to 1989, she played a great heroic role as defender of freedom, sacrificing and serving mankind, a role of which we can be forever proud. But having won that epochal struggle against the evil empire, we found ourselves in a world for which we were unprepared. Now, like an aging athlete, we keep trying to relive the glory days when all the world looked with awe upon us. We can't let go, because we don't know what else to do. We live in yesterday -- and our rivals look to tomorrow.
In Pat's world, "tomorrow" is a Korean Peninsula run by Juche Fruit and a Middle East where the Israelis aren't allowed to defend themselves from those nice Palestinians and their brigades of florists. It's a world where standing with a fellow democracy is giving them the store.
We tried this crap in the Thirties. No sale.
Pat Buchannan used to be an anticommunist. Now he is fixated on neoconservatives and Cold War hawks. Pathetic.
What is wrong is not our involvement in the Koreas, but the fact that we've been paying protection to those North Korean lunatics for decades while they've only grown more outrageous and dangerous, and we'll end up fighting them after all, now that they've got nukes.
When will Pat admit why he is ignored so much and so often - because he’s so often wrong.
No real ally of our would undervalue their currency to gain a trade advantage. Japan, Korean and Taiwan surely do.. , For the shame of all of them and our shame for accepting this.