Monday, July 09, 2007

Godspy interview with Pat Buchanan

From 2004:

Where the Right Went Wrong: An Interview with Pat Buchanan
Along with the Pope, Pat Buchanan opposed the Iraqi War from the start. We spoke to him about the election, the war, the Catholic vote—and Ali G.
By Angelo Matera and John Zmirak

As for the Catholic neocons, they are the altar boys of a sect that holds, heretically, that free market-democracy is mankind's salvation. And they are willing to support military force in our moment of preeminence to bring it about worldwide. Catholic neocons have been had. They have signed on to an agenda of interventions and wars in the Middle East that have less to do with U.S. security than with U.S. hegemony and some vision of a Pax Americana. It is imperialism, even if we call it democratic imperialism. And it will end the way they all did in the 20th century.

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