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Home Front: Culture Wars
Pat Buchanan: Respect Popular Terrorist States
2006-08-05
Buchanan is drifting to irrelevancy. As I read the Middle East Democraticization Initiative, peace was expected to flow once the old autocracies were replaced by popular governments. Unfortunately, giving democratic choice to Muslims has meant the election of Islamofascist tyrannies. Buchanan wants to negotiate with those animals. It makes sense to treat any entity that is ruled by Mullah dictators, as a terrorist state. And that type of state poses a Homeland threat to the US. Face it, now that the weeds have grown, it is the perfect time to lay down some herbicide.
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Talking With Terrorists
By Pat Buchanan
August 5, 2006

...Before he launched his democracy project, Bush was warned that free elections would advance the fortunes of Islamic militants. At his insistence, the elections were held. The results?

In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood won 60 percent of the seats it contested. Hezbollah swept south Lebanon. Hamas recorded a stunning victory on the West Bank and Gaza. These were the freest and fairest elections ever held in those nations. But Bush refused to engage the winners.

The painful truth is that, in the Middle East, democracy will produce, as it does in the West, two dominant parties. One will be a state party and the other is going to be a party rooted in the Islamic faith.

Time to recognize reality -- and stop isolating America.
Posted by:Snease Shaiting3550

#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  

#7  This asshole and his fellow-travellers can FOAD

I disagree. They can FOESAD. :-)
Posted by: gorb   2006-08-05 17:54  

#6  Weirdly I lost respect for Pat Buchanan about a decade ago.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-08-05 17:14  

#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  

#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  

#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   2006-08-05 11:05  

#2  Pat and Robert Novak are Arab-lovers (and Joooooo haters)
Posted by: Frank G   2006-08-05 10:25  

#1  Signs of senility setting in.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-08-05 10:09  

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