Word: buchananism
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...politics, however, you just carry on, trusting to the short memory of the audience. Well, maybe not this time. For once, an issue was settled. For once, the vaunted sagacity of Sam Nunn, the angry isolationism of Pat Buchanan, the "street"-smart Arabism of the Middle East experts have been put to the test: an encounter with reality. The results are not pretty, and the tested don't like...
...cold war, we face a new war in the gulf. Like Americans going off to Korea just five years after V-J day, we feel uneasy, disappointed. The more disturbed among us feel betrayed. They need to conjure up some conspiracy, some alien force (Jews, imagines the fevered Pat Buchanan) dragging us again...
More troubling is that for years Buchanan has appeared to go out of his way to rile Jewish sensitivities. He argued the innocence of accused and convicted Nazi executioners and suggested that in any case the hunt for old, enfeebled men was of dubious moral value. An outspoken Roman Catholic, he enmeshed himself shrilly in a controversy between Jewish protesters and a convent they wanted removed from the former Auschwitz concentration camp...
...Buchanan remains predictably unrepentant: "I don't retract a single word. The reaction was simply hysterical and is localized to New York." In the truest tradition of the columnist, he vows to have the next, if not necessarily the last, word on the whole topic. A future piece, Buchanan says, will address how out of touch New York City and its media are with the rest of America...
PRESS: Patrick Buchanan and anti-Semitism...