A while back I posted an Amazon link to Pat Buchanan’s newest book, State of Emergency. I have always taken great comfort in knowing that only two people (not including me) know about this little blog and that I can write up a storm without pretense or pause cause there’s no one to impress.

But along the tortuous paths of these networked computers a stray sometimes comes. And some gal read my link to Pat’s book and said this:

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I watched you on Fox News and I agree with your stand on: One Nation Under God.Send the illegal imigrants back where they came from.Protect our borders. Protect us against terror threats whatever that takes. Everyone I talk to feels the same way.

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Let me explain something to you, Bunny, in order of importance.
1) I am not Pat Buchanan.
2) I was never on, nor will I ever be on, Fox News
3) You agree with me on very little, save (i suspect) for some necessary truths that even you would understand (ie there are no three-sided squares, married bachelors, etc)
4) Each of your trite half-sentences are chillingly myopic and usually false… specifically:

“One Nation Under God.”
There’s nothing wrong with that for plenty. But it’s like oil and water for those of us who belong to mother church. Such folks despise any lumping together of a nation’s policies (ie abortion on demand, state-sponsored death penalties, preferential treatment of the rich, and on-the-offense foreign policy) with an all-good religion. It’s like oil and water, too, for those of us who believe in no God at all, trying to find tolerance in a community of freely believing and acting individuals. Such folks despise the lumping together of a nation with a predominant religion.

“Send the illegal imigrants back where they came from.”
Eegads, Bunny, have you worked out the logistics? We’ll need bus drivers, government-hired, so there are likely union concerns here. And what about the translators? Many of these folks can’t speak our language. And I don’t just mean they leave an extra “m” out of the word “immigrants”. I mean syntax issues. How are we going to explain to them to fill out a form in triplicate, get the second page notarized, and bring it to such and such building on this corner in order to catch the next bus home? Oh, and don’t forget the administrators. And, who enforces your sending policy? The cops? You’d rather they go around and round up bunches of illegal immigrants, most of whom are not violent criminals, instead of chasing dope dealers and porn peddlers? What about the FBI? Have you called your FBI hq recently? I have, and when someone is in, you realize that this poor underpaid overworked paper pusher is chasing cases involving either terror or massive amounts of lost cash. He doesn’t have the resources to hunt down Emanuel who is getting paid $8.00 under the table to wash dishes.

Did you even listen to Buchanan when he was on Fox news? Less probably yet, have you read his book? Re: page 269, “We do not need to create a Gestapo or send federal agents to round up and deport nannies or gardeners.” Patty B, in his divine wisdom, sees the “attack” as one of a government against a government and two governments on its own people, rather than one of man vs man. Most illegal immigrants are themselves pawns, encouraged by their own government to suckle off the teat of a booming US economy. And for so long, US response has been all but explicitly laid out: do nothing, look the other way, and encourage more of the same by inaction. This is as much our fault as it is their’s. To an illegal immigrant, not having papers is tantamount to your driving 65 in a 55. It’s against the law, and one oughtn’t do it, but everyone does it.

“Protect our borders. Protect us against terror threats whatever that takes. ”
I worry about you, Bunny. Did you mean to write to Sean Hannity instead of me or Pat or whoever the fuck you think this is? Hannity would have a much more sympathetic ear. He knows where the money’s at, baby.

True, a defensive army is a good thing. Such an army should protect our borders. But it’s the “whatever that takes” that underscores the fundamental difference between you and Buchanan. Pat is vehemently anti-iraq war. But I’ll bet you can’t guess why. Think really hard. Why would a good, God-fearing man be against this war?

Try this: the Iraqis never asked us to help, nor were we ever in the position to know with reasonable certainty that the Iraqi people wanted our help to oust their leader. Sadam Hussein’s Iraq was seen by our allies in Middle East to not be a threat to them. Even itchy finger Israel was at ease.

The problem? The purported problem was that some of the WMDs that we sold Hussein in the eighties were now unaccounted for. Like our own government, he used WMDs against groups of people who were in a different tribe, so we knew that some of them were spent. But we couldn’t locate the rest. And, neither could Sadam, so he said. Now, mind you, we had no reason to believe that he was gearing up to use them or sell them. There was no imminent threat. We went to war because our commanders and administrators were cowards. Better to take the easy way out and kill off what might one day happen rather than act with certitude on what you know to be the case.

This same Neocon position guides those in favor of racial profiling. Better to harm a bunch of innocents in order to get at a bad guy rather than have to live a harder life, one in which you treat all people well, but accept that such a lifestyle has consequences.

Yes, Mr. Buchanan is a Christian, of the Mother Church variety. He follows the Golden Rule and, as such, would never bomb to kingdom come thousands of innocents on the chance that some of those innocents may strike a back door deal with Made in the USA WMDs. Rather, he’d accept the consequences of his own actions, and treat others as he would be treated, even if this means being strong enough to stand up to fear and terror.

“Everyone I talk to feels the same way.”
Here we are in total agreement. I am sure everyone you talk to feels the same way you do.

Yours,
Pat Buchanan