I love this argument. "Pat Buchanan might be a racist, anti-Semitic Hitler fanboy, but..."
Once that's on the table, who cares what this creep thinks? Nobody has less credibility on foreign policy than someone who wrote a book trying to rehabilitate Adolph Hitler's reputation. Do you actually take Pat Buchanan seriously?
Buchanan was very, very influential in the Nixon White House. His role was mostly focused around domestic political events, but the Nixon foreign policy achievements are among the greatest of the last century, and he was a senior advisor, so you know, maybe he does have a bit more street cred than you claim.....
That's disgusting, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Nixon has some of the most vile war crimes committed by an American president in the 20th century to his name.
Also, Buchanan is literally a Hitler apologist. He says that if he were alive in 1939 he would have let Hitler take over Europe and carry out his campaign of genocide. You can't make this sh-t up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkG9fY5pZQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XionBABQGVkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2E-rPs_IuUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ESP1qK7BIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojbcl1MbhDII love this argument. "Pat Buchanan might be a racist, anti-Semitic Hitler fanboy, but..."
Once that's on the table, who cares what this creep thinks? Nobody has less credibility on foreign policy than someone who wrote a book trying to rehabilitate Adolph Hitler's reputation. Do you actually take Pat Buchanan seriously?
Buchanan was very, very influential in the Nixon White House. His role was mostly focused around domestic political events, but the Nixon foreign policy achievements are among the greatest of the last century, and he was a senior advisor, so you know, maybe he does have a bit more street cred than you claim.....
Great... Not only is this guy a rabid anti-Semite, racist and Hitler lover, but he worked in the Nixon White House too!? Seriously, if you're angry at Obama for foreign wars, civil liberties violations and such, wasn't Nixon 800,000 times worse?
Just about even. Nixon's use of bugging was a continuation of Kennedy/Johnson policies. Nixon also at least made an effort to end the Vietnam War where as Obama has dragged his feet in Afghanistan (though, to his credit, he got us out of Iraq), and finally, Obama is just generally incompetent.What the hell?
Nixon (along with Kissinger and John Mitchell) is the reason why the Vietnam War didn't end in 1968. Nixon sabotaged the Peace Accords in 1968 by going behind the back of the State Department and the President and telling the South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu that he would get a better deal with a President Nixon than he would with Johnson/Humphrey if he walked away from the Peace Accords.
Then he lied to the American people about having a secret plan to end the war in order to win the election, not once but twice. That betrayal of trust of the American people, needlessly dragging out the war for another five years to serve his own political ends and sending thousands of men to their deaths, makes him one of (if not,
the) worst President of the twentieth century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xghrs_N4Vuo