The Anti-Reagan
by Pat Buchanan
Despite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that his ideals and his persona count mightily in the modern world.
Wilson declaimed about America's fight to "make the world safe for democracy" when in harness with the British, French, Russian, Japanese and Italian empires, all slavering to feast on the carcasses of the Hohenzollern ...
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:49 AM
Sir;...So you think the Sha of Iran and Samosa were in some senses good for America even while they oppressed their people and sowed hatred for us as the devils who propped them up, and armed them against their own??? We can live with the failures of tyranny better than we can live with our own successes which engender and continue to engender indignation and hatred through out the world...You some times exceed yourself in proving to be a little, narrow minded bigot...I do not expect any reform from you; but if you could valve your brain so only about 5% of your thoughts reached your mouth you might sound intelligent...
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:15 AM
Re: Peter Ungar;...Sir,.. The actions of Mr. Wilson made it more morally difficult for the United States to engage in empire building or to support England and others in that activity... It still occured... We still had our Bannana republics, but for all the good he tried to do, Mr. Wilson is hated as a visionary and a failure...Empire is always an expensive proposition, and one the people back home must pay for to have, because in modern terms, if we should bleed the people of our empire today as was done in the past, the moral outcry would be defening...It is for that reason that we love oil... We can bleed people of their rights and resources without ever touching them with a lash...We just hire a government, and give them guns, and tell the world they are sovereign, and take all the country will give, and leave them no better off than before...For all the carving up of the world after the first great war, all they ever did was cut themselves another great war....And all emperial powers met that next war more broke, more played out, and more dilapidated than before... What Mr. Buchanan suggests is that we should have supported more imperial nonsense, and dug in ourselves...Since it is so often the Irish who have suffered and died for the British empire, much as the Armenians suffered and died for the long held empires of Czar, and Turks; it is indeed a strange proposition he puts forth...Empires are costly, and they destroy the nations from which they spring...And those countries, to have empire, must first give up the moral superiority that no nation should be without...Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: Peter Ungar
Comment: #3
Tue Jun 9, 2009 10:49 AM
Reading this column one might think Pres. Obama's audiences have been learning from him about some of the regrettable things the US has done in their countries. Of course, they know about those actions. All they learn from Pres. Obama is that he deplores those actions, as most of them do.
If a Turkish leader went to Armenia and apologize for the massacre, no doubt cynical foreigners would view it with snickering contempt, patriotic Turks with disgust, to use Mr. Buchanan's words, but decent Turks and noncynical foreigners would regard it as an appropriate gesture.
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