[rmlew]

Royalist France was indespespesible to American Independence. However, we fought our second war with Revolutionary France in the 1790's.
Don't confuse regimes, peoples, and geography.

[Alberta's Child]

That wasn't the only reason he called for U.S. support of Croatia. He used it in a symbolic sense to make the point that Croatia, of all the former Yugoslav republics, was the most "Western" in its outlook and had the best potential for developing into a modern, U.S.-friendly state. It's hard to argue with the results, and it's hard to figure out what the hell the U.S. has been thinking in the Balkans over the last ten years. Not long after that column was written by Buchanan, the U.S. not only criticized Germany for doing exactly what Buchanan had suggested, but proceeded to do in Bosnia and Kosovo -- the two former Yugoslav republics that are dominated by anti-Western Muslims -- the exact same thing (and more) that Germany had done in Croatia!