By Patrick J. Buchanan
* * *
Whether the Establishment likes it or not - and it
evidently does not - there is a revolution going on in America.
The old order in this capital city is on the way out,
America is crossing a great divide, and there is no going back.
Donald Trump’s triumphant march to the nomination in
Cleveland, virtually assured by his five-state sweep Tuesday, confirms it, as
does his foreign policy address of Wednesday.
Two minutes into his speech before the Center for the
National Interest, Trump declared that the “major and overriding theme” of his
administration will be — “America first.” Right down the smokestack!
Gutsy and brazen it was to use that phrase, considering
the demonization of the great anti-war movement of 1940-41, which was backed by
the young patriots John F. Kennedy and his brother Joe, Gerald Ford and Sargent
Shriver, and President Hoover and Alice Roosevelt.
Whether the issue is trade, immigration or foreign
policy, says Trump, “we are putting the American people first again.”
U.S. policy will be dictated by U.S. national interests, candidate
Trump declared.
By what he castigated, and what he promised, Trump is
repudiating both the fruits of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy, and the legacy
of Bush Republicanism and neoconservatism.
When Ronald Reagan went home, says Trump, “our foreign
policy began to make less and less sense. Logic was replaced with foolishness
and arrogance, which ended in one foreign policy disaster after another.”
* TRUE! ALL TRUE!
He lists the results of 15 years of Bush-Obama wars in
the Middle East: civil war, religious fanaticism, thousands of Americans
killed, trillions of dollars lost, a vacuum created that ISIS has filled.
(*NOD*)
Is he wrong here?
* NOPE! HE'S RIGHT!
How have all of these wars availed us?
Where is the “New World Order” of which Bush I
rhapsodized at the U.N.?
(*SILENCE*)
Can anyone argue that our interventions to overthrow
regimes and erect "democratic states" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Libya and Yemen have succeeded and been worth the price we have paid in blood
and treasure, and the devastation we have left in our wake?
(*CONTINUING SILENCE*)
George W. Bush declared that America’s goal would become
“to end tyranny in our world.” An utterly utopian delusion, to which Trump
retorts by recalling John Quincy Adams’ views on America: “She goes not abroad
in search of monsters to destroy.”
(*STANDING OVATION*)
To the neocons’ worldwide crusade for "democracy,"
Trump’s retort is that it was always a “dangerous idea” to think “we could make
Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in
becoming Western democracies.”
We are “overextended,” Trump declared; “We must rebuild
our military.”
(*HALF-NOD*)
* TRUMP IS CORRECT THAT WE'RE OVER-EXTENDED. AS TO
"REBUILDING" OUR MILITARY... WHAT TRUMP IS CALLING FOR ISN'T THROWING
GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD AND FEEDING THE SAME MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THAT HAS
TIME AND AGAIN PLACED ITS NEEDS - AND ITS GREED - ABOVE THE NATIONAL
INTEREST. NO... WHAT TRUMP SEEMS TO BE CALLING FOR IS RATIONALIZING AND
REORDERING OUR SPENDING PRIORITIES TO CREATE THE SORT OF MILITARY AMERICA
REQUIRES TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND OUR VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS AS WE RATIONALIZE
OUR ALLIANCES AND REEXAMINE EXACTLY WHAT "SERVING THE NATIONAL
INTEREST" ACTUALLY ENTAILS.
Our NATO allies have been freeloading for half a century.
* TRUE!
NAFTA was a lousy deal.
* ALSO TRUE! (OBVIOUSLY TRUE!)
In running up $4 trillion in trade surpluses since Bush I,
the Chinese have been eating our lunch.
* YEP...
(*SIGH*)
This may be rankest heresy to America’s elites, but Trump
outlines a foreign policy past generations would have recognized as common
sense: Look out for your own country and your own people first.
(*ANOTHER STANDING OVATION*)
Instead of calling President Putin names, Trump says he
would talk to the Russians to “end the cycle of hostility” if he can.
(*NOD*)
This writer served in President Reagan’s White House...
* YEP! HE SURE DID!
...and the Gipper was always seeking a way to get the
Russians to negotiate.
(*NOD*)
He leapt at the chance for a summit with Mikhail
Gorbachev in Geneva... and Reykjavik.
(*ANOTHER NOD*)
“Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war,” says Trump,
“unlike other candidates, war and aggression will not be my first instinct.”
* LET ME REITERATE, MY FRIENDS; CRUZ'S CHOICE OF NEOCON
CARLY FIORINA AS HIS CHOSEN RUNNING MATE...
(*PAUSE*)
...DEMONSTRATES TO ME THAT CRUZ MAY WELL HAVE MORE IN
COMMON WITH THE NEOCONS (THE BUSH FAMILY, LINDSEY GRAHAM, JOHN MCCAIN) THAN
WITH RAND PAUL, RON PAUL... OR RONALD REAGAN FOR THAT MATTER.
* AND SPEAKING OF RAND PAUL...
(*SIGH*)
BOTH RAND PAUL AND RON PAUL SHOULD LOGICALLY BE SOUNDING
THE ALARM BELL CONCERNING FIORINI - JUST AS I HAVE BEEN DOING.
Dwight Eisenhower ended the war in Korea and kept us out
of any other.
* YEP.
Richard Nixon ended the war in Vietnam, negotiated arms
agreements with Moscow, and made an historic journey to open up Mao’s China.
* YEP.
Reagan used force three times in eight years. He put
Marines in Lebanon, liberated Grenada and sent FB-111s over Tripoli to pay Col.
Gadhafi back for bombing a Berlin discotheque full of U.S. troops. [Please
note:] Reagan later believed putting those Marines in Lebanon, where 241 were
massacred, to be the worst mistake of his presidency.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
(*NOD*)
Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation
building is not an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a
Republican tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that
proved disastrous for the United States and the Middle East.
* TRUTH...!!!
The New York Times headline declared that Trump’s speech
was full of “Paradoxes,” adding, “Calls to Fortify Military and to Use It
Less.” But isn’t that what Reagan did - conduct the greatest military buildup
since Ike, then, from a position of strength, negotiate with Moscow a radical
reduction in nuclear arms?
* YES! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT REAGAN DID!
“We’re getting out of the nation-building business,” says
Trump.
* FROM TRUMP'S MOUTH TO GOD'S EARS! I PRAY TO GOD TRUMP
GETS THE CHANCE TO TURN THIS DREAM INTO REALITY!
“The nation-state remains the true foundation for
happiness and harmony.” No more surrenders of sovereignty on the altars of
“globalism.”
Is that not a definition of a patriotism that too many
among our arrogant elites believe belongs to yesterday?
* YES. YES IT IS. GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP. AND IF CRUZ
WERE HALF THE MAN I ONCE THOUGHT HIM TO BE HE'D BE ECHOING MY SENTIMENT - AT
LEAST WHERE TRUMP'S FOREIGN POLICY AND TRADE POLICY ARE CONCERNED.
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