Posted on 08/15/2015 10:06:19 PM PDT by Nachum
Pat Buchanan has for years been such a virulent opponent of Israel that he has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism, and this column condemning Benjamin Netanyahu for supposedly interfering in America’s internal affairs by opposing the Iran deal is not going to erase that impression. The paleocon Right hates Israel with such abiding passion that it is increasingly self-contradictory: for a small government advocate like Buchanan defending Barack Obama and tacitly supporting a deal that threatens not just Israel, but the U.S. as well, manifests a moral myopia of catastrophic immensity.
But it’s no surprise. I’ve noted before how the paleocons over at Buchanan’s American Conservative have embraced the hard Left’s invention of “Islamophobia” and even come out in favor of submitting to violent intimidation and kowtowing to the foes of the freedom of speech. If they’re the opposite end of the political spectrum from the hard Left, the ends are meeting.
And now Pat Buchanan pretends that Barack Obama, who has shown himself again and again to have the attitude and assumptions and sensibilities of a Marxist internationalist, is an old-school President like Truman or Ike who only makes deals with other nations with America’s best interests at heart. That’s some serious hatred of Israel, to make Pat Buchanan pick up the pom-poms for a far-Left statist. But lines are being redrawn all over the place these days.
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Jew haters flock together.
I would wager that Pat receives great amounts of money from oil-rich Mohammedan groups.
Could Pat ever get any more liberal than this? Bad enough his being an apologist for liberal former employer Nixon, and bad enough his past antisemitic lies.
I never understood why Buchanan who seems pretty sane on most things is so against Israel.
You WIN the wager.
Pat and his buddy Jim Baker hate Israel with a passion and have been on the take from the muslims for a LONG time.
Somebody needs to put Pat in a rocking chair, fix him a Mint Julep and turn him once in a while so he gets evenly baked.
Yet another islamist facilitator....
What do Ron Paul and his son say?
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Winner!
….for a small government advocate like Buchanan defending Barack Obama and tacitly supporting a deal that threatens not just Israel, but the U.S. as well, manifests a moral myopia of catastrophic immensity.
EXACTLY.
This always happens. Pat is such a good writer and thinker about most any other topic. Eventually, I am reminded that when it comes to Israel, for some reason, Pat is in lockstep with people like Jimmy Carter and now President Obama. Why, Patrick?
Maybe it’s personal. Maybe Pat lost a job opportunity or a girlfriend to a Jewish man decades ago.
This is so depressing.
I actually like Buchanan on a personal level.
And he’s done some excellent research and creative thinking on the immigration issue, which has been my top issue for the last ten years.
But every time he talks about Israel and Jews, I cringe in disbelief.
The defense of Israel and the security of the Jewish people have been two of my top issues for more than 50 years.
It’s unforgivable for Buchanan to write and say things like this.
Why would they throw money at Pat? To act as a lobbyist?
Outside of political junkies like me, his influence is not all that grand these days. Sort of like George Will or Maureen Dowd. Or maybe Buchanan still does have some pull.
They have plenty of dough and use it on all fronts. They even use it on trolls on internet pages that are smaller than FR.
It reminds me of the predicament of the government of El Salvador in the 1980s. The FMLN guerrillas had more information offices around the world than the Salvadoran government had embassies and consulates. On campuses all over the world, in the media, and among all sorts of squish groups like Amnesty International El Salvador was the symbol of evil while the largely foreign-born communist terrorists of the FMLN were regarded as freedom fighters.
No; there are still a few of us Paleocons around that support Israel and despise the ragheads and P#ssy Buchanan.
That stupid bastard has been bought and paid for since 1974.
I think he still has pull with the RNC and all the other one world RINO’s.
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