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Pat Buchanan, Losing It?

For a long while, now I’ve been concerned about Pat Buchanan. I’ve called him right when he was, but in the years since his most recent run for President, I’m afraid that’s become an evermore rare event. Alas, that more frequently he’s been coming up with idiotic nonsense like this, in his column in the March first issue of The American Conservative, called: No End to War [1]:

“But how is our survival as a nation menaced when not one American has died in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11?”

Oh, come ON, Pat… you can’t be serious!

Can someone be threatened without dying? Can someone be a threat without, as yet, being a killer?
Buchanan’s finally gone round the bend. His vision for America’s role in the world is isolationistic in nature, and disastrous in it’s end. 9/11 happened because we let down our guard… Oddly, that’s exactly what he’s calling for… More isolationism, more waiting for an enemy to attack.

Apparently in Buchanan’s world, sitting back and waiting is morally justified, an argument no American should accept.

I’ll continue to defend Buchanan as I have, when he’s right. I’m hoping that’s soon.
For the meantime, he’s wrong. Thankfully, he’s not in power, else we’d be DEAD wrong.

Slant: Can someone describe to me how Buchanan’s position here is substantially different from the far left he claims to be fighting?