[lbo-talk] Buckley throws in the towel on Iraq

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 26 10:23:05 PST 2006


Michael Pollak wrote:


>I thought Buckley never saw himself as a neocon, and saw himself as
>closer to the paleocons -- who, led by Buchanan and Taki at The
>American Conservative, were always against this war.

Buckley was always able to straddle the fault lines of American conservatism - he was able to be traditionalist & libertarian, reactionary Catholic and Market Man, all at once. It never made any sense intellectually but his charm managed to get him through.

Doug



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