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More Buchanan
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Pat Buchanan's web site:
PJB: Infantile Nation
posted by Linda
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Does this generation possess the gravitas to lead the world?
Considering the hysteria that greeted the request of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at Ground Zero, the answer is no.
What is it about this tiny man that induces such irrationality?
Answer: He is president of a nation that is a “state sponsor of terror,” that is seeking nuclear weapons, and is moving munitions to the Taliban and insurgents in Iraq.
But Libya was a “state sponsor of terror,” and Col. Gadhafi was responsible for Pan Am 103, the Lockerbie massacre of school kids coming home for Christmas. And President Bush secretly negotiated a renewal of relations in return for Gadhafi giving up his nuclear program and compensating the families of the victims of that atrocity. Has Ahmadinejad ever committed an act of terror like this?
Richard Nixon went to Moscow and concluded strategic arms agreements while Moscow was the arms supplier of the enemy we were fighting in Vietnam that used, at Hue, mass murder as a war tactic.
Nixon went to Beijing to toast Mao Zedong, the greatest mass murderer in history, responsible for the deaths of 37,000 Americans in Korea, who was, in 1972, persecuting and murdering dissidents in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution run by his crazed wife, and transshipping Russian weapons into Vietnam.
And Nixon is today hailed as a statesman for having gone there.
In 1959, President Eisenhower rode up Pennsylvania Avenue in an open convertible with Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s gauleiter in Ukraine, who, three years before his tour of the United States, had sent tanks into Budapest to butcher the patriots of the Hungarian Revolution.
What has Ahmadinejad done to rival these monsters?
It would be an obscenity, we are told, if Ahmadinejad were allowed to place a wreath at Ground Zero. This is a public relations stunt that should never be permitted.
That the Iranian president has PR in mind is undoubtedly true. Much of what national leaders do is symbolic. But that wreath laying would have said something else, as well.
It would have said that, to Iran, these Americans were victims who deserve to be honored and mourned and, by extension, the men who killed them were murderers. Bin Laden celebrates 9/11. So do all America-haters. By laying a wreath at Ground Zero, the president of Iran would be saying that in the war between al-Qaida and the United States, he and his country side with the United States.
How would we have been hurt by letting him send this message?
To the hysteriacs, Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler and we are all at Munich – and we should behave like Churchill and gird for war.
This is absurd.
Indeed. http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=855
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Further to Glenn's point
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ahmadinejad is an insincere, jingoistic and ambitious powerbroker. In an American television interview, he insinuated that the Holocaust didn't happen and then when pressed on that point by Mike Wallace, changed it to, "well, where did this happen". This is not the mark of a good man. He clearly has animus toward Jews and homosexuals, even if he's not genocidal, which I don't think he is, or even murderous which he may not be. He's frankly just a right wing politician like so many we have in this country.
The point Glenn is making, which is crucial and central to the true threat to life liberty and happiness, is that he is a red herring, not a saint. To the extent we start defending him and lose that critical distinction, we fall right into the war mongers' trap.
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Paul in KY
[Read the article: The Susan Estrich Complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A concern troll is a wop apparently. Your last name end with a vowel per chance?
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Gotta hand it to shooter
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]He has a very thick skin to tough it out on this board. Unfortunately the density doesn't seem to taper much over the cranium.
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One has to feel for the Germans
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it any wonder Turks are recalcitrant in their denials of the Armenian Genocide, what with the way we hold up Nazi Germany as the wellspring of history's most filthy filth? That's to say nothing for the utter lack of imagination that continually bringing up WWII related events evidences, (Ken Burns is great and all, but is there anything I don't know about WWII by now?). Why can't people mix it up a bit? Throw in some slanderous Stalinist, Red Guard, Inquisitor or Hutu ad hom here and there. If not succeeding in raising the level of the debate, at least it would imply there was more to the historical record than WWII and Vietnam.
Speaking of Red Guard, where's that waltzing ma-tilde boy hiding out this morning?