At the end of the Cold War in 1991, many Americans urged that, with the Soviet Empire dissolved and Soviet Union disintegrating, it was time to bring our troops home and let the rich fat nations that had been freeloading for half a century provide the soldiers and pay the cost of their own security.
Instead, the establishment opted for empire, for expanding old alliances, dumping over regimes, crusading for democracy, sending our soldiers out to remake Third World countries in the image of Iowa and Vermont.
Who now thinks all these wars were worth the cost?
The question I'd like to research is whether Pat Buchanan was writing this way back in the 1990s. I suspect that he wasn't.
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He's been pretty consistently a paleoconservative opposed to foreign interventions.
ReplyDeleteJeffery Hodges
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