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Re: CanisLatus;... Sir, there is simply nothing to be gained from a quarrel between the right and the right in Persia... It is quite possible that the winner won, and the only ones to lose face and credibility in this situation is us... What is the point??? If the Mullahs have the guns they have the power, and if they have the religion they have the authority; so they will win, and all we will do is make ourselves look powerless, since we have, in fact, pessed away all our power to do anything in Iraq and Afghanistan... Thems are the facts, and Mr. B. is too short to see over them...There is either going to be a hockey game there, or a fight, and given the advantages on the one side, it is likely to be short and not too sweet..And Pat's moral compass moves for money...Nothing else gets his pointer working....Thanks...Sweeney

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Sir; ... As Saddam Hussein could testify if he were still alive; not having nuclear weapons does not make any of those countries more secure either... We are more secure telling them what to do, and in shaking the nuclear fist at them; but they are not more secure... Quite reasonably, the people are objecting to theocracy and theocratic control of society... We have not got much to brag about on that score...We let ideology do our thinking for us, and one of those ideologies is religion...It does not lead to intelligent government or to good government...In the instance of Iran; those people are giving a large part of their GNP to having a little bit of respect, and many working people who want to be part of the world as individuals have no use for national respect...I think those individuals are in the wrong... We have a bad habit of disrespecting every people until we have fought them...WE simple seem incapable of respecting people we have not joined with in mass blood letting... We feel like we have to fight every new kid in town to find out if they are okay... If we just whipped them, or made them Kow Tow, then we would crap on their plates with little regard to their sensibilities..That is what bullies do....We don't treat the Germans, or the Japanese, the Koreans, or the Vietnamese that way... So they are absolutely correct to pursue Nuclear arms... As big a drain as that is on their brain power, and their economy, and as bad as nukes are for offensive activity; still, those nukes are the best defense at the least cost since nothing so scorches the earth as Nuclear Weapons... We should realize that those people are more western than eastern... They have honor, and deserve respect... If having Nuclear arms as a goal shows they are as determined and intelligent as ourselves, then we should join with them, and admit them as equals which is a quality we give lip service to, and never mean...Those people are our equals, and I will say it, and we should mean it... There is the nub of our differences with them, that we do not say, or think that they deserve equality with us, and until we do, we will not have peace, or trust...Thanks...Sweeney

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Has Pat Buchanan had a stroke? For a guy who previously wrote with such rational constructs, he seems to have been brainwashed (or is it waterboarded) by Dick Cheney. Maybe it's just the topic of Iran that has him all squirrely, but he is off-the-rails on that one. Can it be that his patrons have persuaded him that the neocon way is the correct way? It is very disappointing for me, a long-time reader of his essays, to see this drivel appear under his name. I wonder if he isn't just signing-off on someone else's claptrap. In any case, what Iran does or does not do is no business of the United States of America. If our "leaders" didn't insist on sticking their noses where they don't belong, there would not be a Middle East problem. The double standard, enforced by the Israeli Lobby in D.C., has destroyed any pretensions of credibility that the U.S. might ever have had in foreign capitols. If Israel's extensive nuclear arsenal is not a problem, why should an Islamic nuclear arsenal be a problem? The double standard won't fly. Since our government first took the baton from the British adventurers in the Levant, America has been viewed, accurately, as the enemy of self-determination; not only in the Middle East, but around the world. Pat Buchanan ought to go back and read his own book about the "unnecessary war". His current attitude shows that his moral compass gone kaput.