Patrick Buchanon: Uber Dhimmi

Is it because he just does't get it, or is Buchanon's latest call against Israel simply his latest example of a creeping anti-Semitism in Pat's soul?

Winess his stupifing September 10th mentality;

""No, Israel is doing this, with the blessing and without a peep of protest from President Bush. And we wonder why they hate us.""

Ah, the justifiable hatred. I'm not even going to waste my time explaining why we're right and the terrorist's are wrong, I'm more interested in why an American conservative would hold such an absurd view.

Although Buchanon claims to be an isolationist, even a brief bit of reasearch reveals Pat's motive.

In a 1977 column, Buchanan wrote,

"Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path."

Hitler a genius? Pat doesn't stop there, He was the principal force encouraging Reagan to visit Bitberg, comparing fallen German soldiers to Holocaust victums. Being an isolationist just isn't good enough reason to side with terrorists, It was Hezbollah, after all who killed the 200 US Marines in Lebanon. But I think this is more than just Pat's inability to recognize the jihad against infidels. Buchanon is an embarrasment to right. His views belong on Daily Kos, not WND. He needs to be written off as an anti-Semite quack along with his Muslim friends, the far left, and anyone else who finds comfort in the reasoning behind terrorism.

Joeseph Farah of WND compares Buchanon to Kofi Anon;

""I hope Pat Buchanan and Kofi Annan are feeling good about themselves today.
They agree with each other on what needs to be done to resolve the Middle East conflict. For whatever reasons, they fail to grasp the root cause of the Arab-Israeli struggle – that Hezbollah, Hamas and much of the Arab and Muslim world want more than anything else in the world to destroy the Jewish state.""

Buchanon seems to think that if it weren't for the Jews, all would be right in the Middle East, sound familiar?

""But what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian""

Hezbollah is anti-American and anti Christian, Israel isn't. To state otherwise helps feed the hatred that sends young men to suicide bombings. They are terrorists, not "gunmen". I'm beginning to think Pat understands Hezbollah all too well, he just agrees with them.