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2006-08-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pat Buchanan: Respect Popular Terrorist States

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Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-05 02:41|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Signs of senility setting in.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-08-05 10:09|| 2006-08-05 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Pat and Robert Novak are Arab-lovers (and Joooooo haters)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-05 10:25|| 2006-08-05 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 This asshole and his fellow-travellers can FOAD.

They obviously don't think we're going to lose, in spite of their blathering - since they'd be some of the first to die at the hands of the islamoterro-nutcases if we did.

Keep yapping, Pat - your buddies Adolf, Josef, Yassin, et al., are keeping a seat warm for you with them in HELL.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-05 11:05|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2006-08-05 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Buchanan wants to pretend that the elections in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Egypt are about as free and fair as elections can get.

I tend to disagree with this very strongly.

Posted by Phil 2006-08-05 11:48|| 2006-08-05 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Whether these elections are legit or not, the question still is: do these regimes pose a threat to us? After all, let's say that Japan 1941 was a representative democracy and not some strange imperial militaristic hybrid. Would we have then said, "Oh, that massacre in Nanking? It represents the will of the Japanese people through their democratically elected leaders. No biggie."

We are going to have to accept that the notion that democracies do not fight each other is untrue and has only appeared true in the past because the sample population was so small.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-05 14:30|| 2006-08-05 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Weirdly I lost respect for Pat Buchanan about a decade ago.

Posted by eLarson 2006-08-05 17:14|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-08-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#7 This asshole and his fellow-travellers can FOAD

I disagree. They can FOESAD. :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-08-05 17:54|| 2006-08-05 17:54|| Front Page Top

#8 The "democracies are peaceful" stuff always annoyed me because when you mentioned a counterexample, it was always eliminated as 'not a democracy' (US-England in 1812). Democracies and Republics can be as expansionist and warlike as anyone else, if the bulk of the population is. Witness Rome, or the USA in the westward expansion era.

So if a country, Democracy or not, crosses the line they deserve to get hammered for it. The difference is that in a Democracy, the decision makers are paying the full price of the retribution and have a better chance of learning a lesson. In a dictatorship, its not difficult for the rulers to be isolated from any negative consequences of a failed adventure.

Posted by Oldcat 2006-08-05 21:49|| 2006-08-05 21:49|| Front Page Top

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