Apocalypse Nigh: Pat Buchanan Actually Making Sense!

[Keith Bee]

Why does Mao Zedong, who murdered 10 times as many Chinese as Japan in World War II, lie in honor in a crystal sarcophagus in Tiananmen Square? Because Mao is still seen to have ‘liberated” China from a century of rule by hated Japanese and Western imperial powers and their lackeys.

Why was Saigon renamed for Ho Chi Minh? Why do his remains rest in honor in Hanoi? Because “Uncle Ho” is seen by his people as having driven out the Japanese, French and Americans, and united all Vietnamese in a national home.

Even Fidel Castro, who brought the most successful country in Latin America down close to the level of Haiti, still has admirers inside and outside Cuba. Why? Because he defied the “Yanquis” and threw them out, along with their quisling Fulgencio Batista.

Like Mao, Ho and Castro, Osama tapped into the most powerful current of the age: ethnic nationalism, the desire of peoples to be rid of foreign rule and any oppressive foreign presence, and to put up against a wall all indigenous traitors who do the foreigners’ will.

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/05/09/osamas-undying-reach/

Maybe that May 21st thing isn't quite so loony after all. :scared:

[geckosfeet]

1. No. He is still loony and vile. And apparently always will be.

This latest dropping supports and even glorifies violence inspired by nationalism or religious fervor.

Of course, we (the united states and other western countries) are inspired to patriotic anthems and dance by state sponsored violence as well.

Now I need to go cleanse myself after coming into contact with that nazi front piece of a website.

[RZM]

2. RW isolationism is nothing new

Buchanan and many other 'paleocons' have been preaching it for years.

[jtuck004]

3. Hmmm, not a Buchanan fan, but this line is indisputable - and it's not his

"...as Victor Hugo reminded us, “Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”"

[poli_ticks]

4. There is a war on in the right for hearts and minds of Conservatives.

Paleocons/Libertarians vs Banksters/Neocons.

As someone else on the thread has pointed out, it's not a new fight - there always was an isolationist wing in the GOP. But it's a fight that had been decisively won by the Banksters/Neocons. So I guess this is round II.

Now we need one on the Left. Because the Democratic party is not anti-interventionist enough, anti-Empire enough, anti-Wall Street enough, IMHO.