Quote from 377OHMS:
Pat Buchanan was an anti-semite before Iran was an Islamic Republic. It goes way back for him, all the way to Nixon.
I find Pat Buchanan to have been correct the last few years so I have trouble believing he is an anti semite.
I looked it up and found this...
"On American Jews and the Pro-Israel Lobby
2010: âIf [Elena] Kagan [President Obamaâs nominee to the Supreme Court] is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this Democratsâ idea of diversity?â
-- Column, âAre Liberals Anti-WASP?â May 14, 2010
2008: âIsrael and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran. Bush should rebuff them, and the American people should tell their congressmen: You vote for 362, we donât vote for you.â
-- Column, âA Phony Crisis â and a Real One,â July 15, 2008
2007: âIf you want to know ethnicity and power in the United States Senate, 13 members of the Senate are Jewish folks who are from 2 percent of the population. That is where real power is atâ¦.â
-- On The McLaughlin Group, February 2, 2007
2005: âNeocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.â
-- Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq, P.136
2005: âThey charge us with anti-Semitismâ¦The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.â
-- Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq, P.137
2005: âWho would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.â
-- Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq, P.142
2004: "[Richard] Perle's depiction of his delight at first meeting the future president reads like Fagin relating his initial encounter with the young Oliver Twist."
-- Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, P.42
2004: "Who would benefit from these endless wars in a region that holds nothing vital to America-save oilâ¦Who would benefit from a 'war of civilizations' with Islam? Who other than these neoconservatives and Ariel Sharon? Indeed, Sharon was everywhere the echo of his American auxiliaryâ¦."
-- Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, P.52
2004: "Israel is in an existential crisis. It can wall itself off and annex what it wants on the West Bank, and leave Palestinians in tiny truncated, nonviable bantustans that will become the spawning pools of terror. Or it can give the Palestinians what Oslo, Camp David, Taba and the 'roadmap' promised; a homeland, a nation and a state of their own. Israel is free to choose. But American needs a Middle East policy made in the USA, not in Tel Aviv, or at AIPAC or AEI."
-- Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, P.241
2004: "America has given up its role as 'honest broker.' President Bush no longer sits at the head of the negotiating table, but directly behind Sharon."
-- Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, P.242
2004: "Dissent to the neocon line on Iraq or Israel has come to be equated with treason."
-- Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, P.248
2004: BUCHANAN: [N]eoconservativesâ¦Perle and Wolfowitz and Wurmser and the others, working with Netanyahu, had an agenda for war with Iraq that was going nowhere.
9/11 happens, and they put this agenda before a president, who in my judgment was untutored, as his father was not. Reagan would not have done this. I don't think his father would have done this.
They captured Rumsfeld, and they captured Cheney, and I think they captured the presidentâ¦
BLITZER: Did you think of the Jewish line of Fagan [sic] when you wrote that and Richard Perle being Jewish?
BUCHANAN: Well, I mean, obviously Fagan was Jewish. But the thing about it is he was a leader of pick-pockets in a fictional book. Why is it unacceptable for me to use a literary allusion when I am called routinely Father Charles Coughlin of the modern era who was alleged to be an anti-Semitic priest? That is an outrage because that's a real character.
But I'll tell you this. Look, my views with regard to the security of this country - I disagree with Sharon's agenda. I think we have outsourced Middle East policy to Ariel Sharon. I think that's a disaster for this country. It's damaging our relations over the world.
And we cannot allow ourselves to be silenced because people call us names. My objection to the neoconservatives is not their ethnicity, Wolf. It is their war-mongering."
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http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro.asp
It is clearly anti neo con. I do not see it as anti semitic.
You can dislike Euro policy without being anti European. I seem him dislike or detesting policy and maybe even some of the people who were making it. I do not see anti semitism. But, I can see why you might say it is a close call.
