{"id":16951,"date":"2014-11-20T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16951"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:16:43","slug":"pat-buchanan-questions-endless-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16951","title":{"rendered":"Pat Buchanan questions ‘endless war’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat Buchanan, a former\u00a0US Presidential candidate, is a leading voice of American Conservatism. \u00a0In excerpt from\u00a0an article that appeared<\/a>\u00a0on his website on Tuesday, he is less than flattering about the Republican Party:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you like the Journal\u2019s war?\u201d<\/p>\n

So boasted the headline of William Randolph Hearst\u2019s New York flagship that week in 1898 that the United States declared war on Spain.<\/p>\n

While Hearst\u2019s Journal, in a circulation battle with Joe Pulitzer\u2019s World, was a warmongering sheet, it did not start the war.<\/p>\n

Yet the headline comes to mind reading the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial pages seem to have concluded that on Nov. 4 America voted for new wars in the Middle East, and beyond.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 15, its lead editorial declared that the great \u201cquestion before President Obama and Europe is how to stop the Napoleon of the Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin is Napoleon? Has the Journal lost it?<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin is 62. By age 40, Napoleon\u2019s empire encompassed nearly all of Europe. France had swallowed Belgium, Holland, parts of Germany and the Italian coast to Rome. The Emperor had alliances with Austria, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and a truncated Prussia. Virtually all the resources, industries and populations of Continental Europe were at the service of the French Empire.<\/p>\n

Putin has reacquired Crimea, which belonged to Russia before the United States was a nation, and is about the size of Vermont.<\/p>\n

Napoleon made it to Moscow. Does the Journal think Putin will make it to Paris, as Czar Alexander I did, or to Berlin, as Stalin did?<\/p>\n

The Journal hails the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 18-0 vote to arm the Ukrainians, and urges Congress to do the same.<\/p>\n

And what would be the result of U.S. heavy weapons arriving in Kiev?<\/p>\n

Would Putin recoil in shock and awe and scurry out of Crimea?<\/p>\n

Probably not, as the Journal itself concedes, \u201cIn 15 years running Russia, Mr. Putin has never stood down.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if Putin, seeing U.S. weapons arriving in Kiev, sent in the Russian army to annex Luhansk and Donetsk, took Mariupol on the Black Sea coast, established a land bridge to Crimea, and then offered to negotiate, what would Kiev do?<\/p>\n

Even with U.S. weapons Ukraine cannot defeat Russia.<\/p>\n

What would we do? Accept defeat? Send U.S. advisers or troops into Ukraine? Launch strikes on Russian forces? Blockade Crimea? Are we really prepared for war with Russia, over Donetsk?<\/p>\n

Since Nov. 4, the Journal and its neocon allies have been cawing for U.S. troops to fight ISIL in Iraq and Syria, for U.S. air strikes on Assad\u2019s regime, for bombing Iran, and for arming Ukraine to fight the Russians in a war that Kiev would surely lose.<\/p>\n

Was this what America voted for on Nov. 4?<\/p>\n

Is this what the Grand Old Party has on offer \u2013 endless war?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat Buchanan, a former\u00a0US Presidential candidate, is a leading voice of American Conservatism. \u00a0In excerpt from\u00a0an article that appeared\u00a0on his website on Tuesday, he is less than flattering about the Republican Party: \u201cHow do you like the Journal\u2019s war?\u201d So boasted the headline of William Randolph Hearst\u2019s New York flagship that week in 1898 that … Continue reading “Pat Buchanan questions ‘endless war’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[782,1295],"tags":[10586,4369,81,14,66,1638],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-in-depth-coverage","tag-endless-war","tag-neocons","tag-pat-buchanan","tag-republican-party","tag-russia","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16952,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions\/16952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}