Pat Buchanan, apologist for terror

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Fri May 31 20:30:45 PDT 2002


Am I missing something here, Doug? Far from being an apologist for terror, Buchanan is arguing against it. As he's done elsewhere, he's insisting that the price of the American empire is terror, "terror on American soil," and the only way to avoid it is to dismantle the empire. --CGE

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:


> At 4:43 PM -0400 5/31/02, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote:
>
> >Patrick J. Buchanan, world net daily - The price of empire is terror. The
> >price of occupation is terror. The price of intervention is terror . . .
> >Before, not after, the next terror attack on this country, America's leaders
> >should start telling the truth: Evil though they may be, Islamic killers are
> >over here because we are over there. They are not trying to kill us because
> >they dislike our domestic politics, but because they detest our foreign
> >policy. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. They did not fly
> >into those twin towers to protest universal suffrage or to advance
> >self-determination for the Palestinian people. As Osama bin Laden said, they
> >want us to stop propping up the Saudi regime they hate, and to get off the
> >sacred Saudi soil on which sit the holiest shrines of Islam. They want our
> >troops out of Saudi Arabia and if we don't get out, they are coming over
> >here to kill us any way they can. That is reality. Now while America should
> >use every weapon in her arsenal, from intelligence to diplomacy to war, to
> >prevent terror and to punish terror, we must address the central issue:
> >terror on American soil, and eventual cataclysmic and atomic terror on
> >American soil, is the price of American empire. Is the empire worth it?
> >French, Brits, even Soviets said no. They went home. And nothing over there
> >not oil, not bases in Saudi Arabia, not global hegemony is worth risking
> >nuclear terror over here. I may be the only right-winger in America who
> >loves D.C., but then I grew up here. Washington is my hometown. It comes
> >first, and empire isn't even a close second.
> >
> >http://worldnetdaily.com
>



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