Word: buchananism
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That issue came up during the debate over whether the U.S. should use force to expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Buchanan charged that there were "only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the U.S." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal accused Buchanan of anti-Semitism and "blood libel" (a reference to the canard leveled by bigots since the Middle Ages that Jews kill Christian children and use their blood in making Passover matzo). Rosenthal's attack was so outrageous that Buchanan survived the storm...
...Buchanan reveres as his "spiritual guide" has taken Buchanan to the woodshed. In a 38,000-word essay in the National Review, William F. Buckley Jr., the godfather of conservatism, writes, "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it; most probably an iconoclastic temperament...
That iconoclastic temperament has also driven Buchanan to give sympathetic attention to crackpot Holocaust revisionists. In addition, he made intemperate comments during his crusade to prove the innocence of John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker convicted by an Israeli court of having helped murder hundreds of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death-camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. There is considerable evidence that Buchanan may be right that Demjanjuk could not have been the mass murderer of Treblinka. But Buchanan has also claimed that diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody, much less...
Those views go beyond being merely pugnacious. Four years ago, Buchanan came close to running for the presidency with the slogan LET THE BLOODBATH BEGIN. It is still his motto...
...declaring his long-shot challenge to George Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, conservative columnist Pat Buchanan toned down some of his reactionary ideas. But he retained enough traces of xenophobia to sound like a flashback from the isolationist 1930s. Launching his campaign in New Hampshire, where the first 1992 presidential primary is only nine weeks away, Buchanan demanded no less than America's retreat from the world at flank speed...