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What Buchanan is using here, and what you have apparently bought, is a typical Liberal argument of "moral equivalency". If some thug decides to murder 5000 Americans, and the Americans are not prepared, then the blame rests equally on America (or the government, or the CIA, or the FBI, or congress or any other group you care to name) for not forseeing the future and preparing correctly. In other words, you are as responsible as the burglar that ransacked your house because you did not install the proper safeguards on your doors and windows. It is a specious argument, and one that Buchanan likes to make in order to get his name in the news.

No government is perfect, ours is far from it. But blaming America just shows how deeply you and others like you have been duped.

Obviously you missed my point. I am not blaming America. I am blaming the USG. Apologists for the USG will invariably make the argument as I did in points 1 and 2 that since we are a Democracy (first falsehood) that we are directly responsible for our government's actions or non-actions.

Since for the most part the deception of politics is based on this thin thread of rationalizing USG transgressions it is a rather deceptive way of shifting direct blame to the public. It is "the" collectivist argument for all that's rotten in Washington. It is a falsehood that only carries IF we believe that America is a democracy.

No government is perfect, ours is far from it.

But much farther from perfect as long as we have three branches of government at the federal level that continue destroy our Constitutional Republic through subterfuge and legal sleights of hand. Besides, it is an old rationale that is continually promoted by those who think this nation is ruled by majorities instead of law. It is generally made by people who aren't proud of our Constitutional heritage.