Pat Buchanan in The Los Angeles Times
On Civil Rights:
Condemns gays, women in combat, and abortion
Pat Buchanan issued a strident statement of personal belief Thursday, railing against "rampant homosexuality" and America's moral decline and saying that cultural decadence [goes] hand in hand with the death of republics." Among the
pledges: an anti-abortion litmus test for Supreme Court appointments, no taxpayer-funded abortions or fetal tissue research, no women in combat, no gays in the military and no recognition of same-sex marriage.
Source: Megan Garvey, LA Times
Aug 11, 2000
On Foreign Policy:
Interventionism is the incubator of terrorism
In the presidential campaign of 2000, we failed to make foreign policy the issue. But what I said then retains relevance: How can all our meddling not fail to spark some horrible retribution....
Have we not suffered enough--from Pan Am 103, to the World Trade Center, to the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam--not to know that interventionism is the incubator of terrorism?
Or will it take some cataclysmic atrocity on US soil to awaken our global gamesmen to the going price of empire?America today faces a choice of destinies.
We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page
Sep 18, 2001
On Immigration:
Terrorists are among us as undocumented immigrants
Though Osama bin Laden may be the instigator and financier of terror, the war crimes of Tuesday last were carried out by men who live among us.
The enemy is already inside the gates. How many others among our 11 million "undocumented" immigrants are ready to carry out truck bombings, assassinations, sabotage, skyjackings?
Source: Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page
Sep 18, 2001
On War & Peace:
No all-out terror war: do the job and then exit
What took place [in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack] was an atrocity. What is coming may qualify as tragedy. For the mass murder of our citizens has filled this country with a terrible resolve that could lead it to plunge headlong into an all-out
war against despised Arab and Islamic regimes that turns into a war of civilizations, with the United States almost alone. When our Marines were massacred [in Beirut], Reagan did not send a mighty army to avenge them.
He used US power to exact a price, then extricated us from that war. There is no vital American interest at risk in all these religious, territorial and tribal wars from Algeria to Afghanistan.
Let us pay back those who did this, then let us extricate ourselves. Either America finds an exit strategy from empire, or we lose our republic.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page
Sep 18, 2001
On War & Peace:
Avoid slaughtering innocents or more terrosism will follow
We are told the first target of America's wrath will be the Taliban. But if we rain fire and death on the Afghan nation, a proud, brave people we helped liberate from Soviet bondage, we too will slaughter hundreds of innocents.
And as they count their dead, the Afghans too will unite in moral outrage; and, as they cannot fight cruise missiles or Stealth bombers, they will attack our diplomats, businessmen, tourists.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page
Sep 18, 2001
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