Buchanan is rightly loathed by many progressives. Yet, he has always been an independent voice on the right who has been an enemy of the Neocons and one of the few, hardore dissenters on Neocon war mongering.
Today, he writes that Obama got it right on Iran.:
Link. [Link edited away from white supremacist site. - MB]
[Diarist note: changed linked at request of DKos member]
The money quote:
Nevertheless, Obama, with his outstretched hand, his message to Iran on its national day, his admission that the United States had a hand in the 1953 coup in Tehran, his assurances that we recognize Iran's right to nuclear power, succeeded. He stripped the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad of their clinching argument—that America is out to destroy Iran and they are indispensable to Iran's defensee.
Events are yet to play out in Iraq, but this makes sense to me.
Pat's not my favorite Wingnut, but good ideas come from bad people. The Right wing is divided on Iran, and in this case, Buchanan is on the correct side of the argument.
More after the break
Nevertheless, Obama, with his outstretched hand, his message to Iran on its national day, his admission that the United States had a hand in the 1953 coup in Tehran, his assurances that we recognize Iran's right to nuclear power, succeeded. He stripped the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad of their clinching argument—that America is out to destroy Iran and they are indispensable to Iran's defensee.
Events are yet to play out in Iraq, but this makes sense to me.
Pat's not my favorite Wingnut, but good ideas come from bad people. The Right wing is divided on Iran, and in this case, Buchanan is on the correct side of the argument.
[[UPDATE 1]
Oh crap, a nice post about Pat Buchanan makes it to the recommended list on DailyKos. WTF?? What will Morning Joe say? Mica??? Joe???
Edit: new diary stuff]
To expand on the theme, the Right wing doesn't know what to do with Iran. Many openly hoped for an Ahmadinejad victory. Others, while not going that extreme, essentially were of the view that it didn't really matter, that Mousavi was a "kinder, gentler" version of Ahmadinejad. The message being: Iran is the enemy, get ready for war.
The sight of hundreds of thousands of Iranians openly defying the regime has left certain portions of the right in a quandry: on the one hand they see something that sure as hell looks like Democracy in action, on the other hand they have long ago decided that Iran was the ENEMY and NEEDED TO BE ATTACKED. The dissonance is wonderful.
To be clear, we progressives don't know how things will shake out either. Maybe Ahmadinejad will slaughter thousands and Iran will be a worse threat than before.
Or maybe the whole "Axis of Evil" was an oversimplification by Bush and the Neocons, as was most of their foreign policy over the past eight years. It's not as easy as "us versus them"... "with us or against us." There are shades of gray... millions of people on the fences. Win them over with your argument... with your out-stretched hand, not your clenched fist.