Who would have ever thought that Pat Buchanan would EVER have anything in common with Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, and naked Raelians? Yes, they're all opposed to war against Iraq, but if Buchanan ever stages a naked protest, I am so out of here....
This is a time for truth. For America is about to make a momentous decision: whether to launch a series of wars in the Middle East that could ignite the Clash of Civilizations against which Harvard professor Samuel Huntington has warned, a war we believe would be a tragedy and a disaster for this Republic. To avert this war, to answer the neocon smears, we ask that our readers review their agenda as stated in their words. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. As Al Smith used to say, “Nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.”
We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.
Not in our lifetimes has America been so isolated from old friends. Far worse, President Bush is being lured into a trap baited for him by these neocons that could cost him his office and cause America to forfeit years of peace won for us by the sacrifices of two generations in the Cold War.
Yes, and nary a word about doffing his Brooks Brothers suit to protest the war effort (thankfully). Buchanan does nothing in this screed to disabuse me of the notion that he is a world-class gasbag. Still, it is useful to note the interesting collection of personalities and agendas that are lining up against war. No one would ever accuse Buchanan of being a "Limousine Liberal", eh??
Strange bedfellows, indeed.
