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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Michael Tee on March 16, 2010, 08:22:50 PM
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http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/03/15/the-poodle-gets-kicked/ (http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/03/15/the-poodle-gets-kicked/)
Pat Buchanan's take on Netanyahu's public humiliation of Joe Biden. Even the title - - "The Poodle Gets Kicked" - - was hilarious.
A well-deserved slap in the face to one of America's most obsequious and sycophantic public "statesmen." Very well-written piece. Unfortunately, this too will blow over.
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Buchanan is a complicated guy. Just last year he was depicted as a Holocaust denier and a Hitler admirer.
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Israel gets more condemnation from the US than Iran and Hamas combined. They should just do whatever they think is best for their nations security and tell Obama & Biden to pound sand.
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http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/02/15/is-iran-running-a-bluff/ (http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/02/15/is-iran-running-a-bluff/)
Certainly is thought provoking.
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<<Buchanan is a complicated guy. Just last year he was depicted as a Holocaust denier and a Hitler admirer. >>
That's probably when he came up with the idea that WWII was a big mistake that cost Britain and France their Empires and got the U.S.A. unnecessarily involved to its detriment and the U.S.S.R.'s gain. Buchanan seemed to feel that the British and French should have just let Hitler have Poland. It sounded pretty screwy to me, but there are some taboos that are still amazingly strong and one of them is to question in any way the wisdom of fighting Nazis - - the theory being that if you say anything that is remotely critical of fighting Nazi Germany, you must be an anti-Semite and therefore both a Holocaust denier and a Hitler fan.
Buchanan was already in the sights of the Israel Lobby due to his strong criticism of U.S. ties to an "ally" who brought nothing to the "alliance" but a shitstorm of Muslim rage and fury and a multi-billion dollar drain on the U.S. Treasury, so his analysis of WWII from his weirdly pacifist POV was just red meat for the Lobby.
I never had the time to buy or read Buchanan's book on the war, which I still want to do, but I read some reviews, etc. and I came to the conclusion that I couldn't figure the guy out. The Lobby sure as hell hates his fucking guts, but then The Lobby hates Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky too. AND Obama.
For what it's worth, I think Buchanan's wrong - - the kind of evil represented by Hitler and the Nazis just had to be scrubbed off the face of the earth. They were a menace and war or no war, the evil that they were capable of would have just continued to expand by leaps and bounds. But being wrong doesn't necessarily make him an anti-Semite and a Nazi.
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Israel gets more condemnation from the US than Iran and Hamas combined.
Kramer...on March 14, The Wall Street Journal wrote succinctly:
"Mr. Obama's foreign policy pattern to date:
Our enemies get courted; our friends get the squeeze.
It has happened to Poland, the Czech Republic, Honduras & Colombia. Now it's Israel's turn."
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Pat Buchanan is an Irish guy who seriously overdosed on parochial school. Perhaps one of his ancestors was abused when Disraeli ruled the Auld Sod, but he has that affinity for the Germans that the Irish had as a result of realizing that the Jerries and the Irish shared a mistrust and fear of the British and their Jewish financiers. His assessment that Biden made some really stupid statements (there is no space between Israel and the US) and that this whole thing ended with the US looking like Israel's poodle certainly seemed accurate.