[annalex]

Buchanan's method is rather comical: examine what the neo-conservatives want, and call for something different, as if the foreign policy has to deal not with realities but with chess pieces. Bush has a clear policy: eliminate militant muslim elements wherever they are. If Iraq doesn't happen to aid them or harbor them (ha), then Iraq is not on the enemy list, otherwise it is. The world doesn't revolve around paleocons' battles in a teapot.

[madrussian]

American interests are hardly a "paleocon battle". Neocon interests, however, are hardly American and as such should be a subject to scrutiny, yours included. The terrorists mostly come from American allies in the Middle East, not Iraq. The Saudis are also the ones financing jihads in Chechnya and the Balkans.

[TKEman]

Bravo! This post is about Buchanan's axe to grind with neocons. The Patsies don't seem to understand that we simply must pursue these terrorists whereever they may be. We (the rest of the conservative movement) learned something from the Gulf War, the Paleos didn't.