http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000402.html.

May 28, 2004

Fisking Pat Buchanan

[Michael J. Totten:]

Pat Buchanan is being an ass again.

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Comments:

[my reply (the second-to-the-last legitimate entry on the thread):]

Whenever action is taken, whether personal or political, the rational actor considers the real effects which his action will elicit. All too often, rash or precipitate action results in the dialectical opposite of its author's purported desire.

That you happen to be right/left, conservative/liberal, etc., is secondary. My burning question is: can't you see that the Invasion of Iraq has so far accomplished the exact opposite of those effects which you claim to desire? Didn't you expect the 55-to-60% of Iraqis who happen to be Shiite (as even a cursory purview of The World Almanac would have revealed) would seek a closer relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iraq, once the secular Baathist regime was removed? Why did you charge ahead so pigheadedly, against the advice of three of the largest European countries, and drive the Muslim population of Iraq into the waiting arms of the Islamicists? When will you admit that, had we done nothing, we would now be better off?

I was not aware that the Baathists forced Iraqi women to wear the burkha. Perhaps they will be, soon. Nor was I aware that the Baathists enforced teetotalism. Perhaps it too will be enforced, soon. Thanks but no thanks, Totten.

By the way, Totten, Pat Buchanan is a better writer than you are, or are ever likely to be. Have some respect for your betters.

And Justin Raimondo and Nick Danger: good job, guys!