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Pat Buchannan Joins Anti-Globalization

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Infamous right-winger Buchannan speaks out against globalization's harm to the US economy, lethal sanctions again Iraq, and the panic to erode civil liberties.
Can the left overcome its political prejudice unify with the right on at least these issues? Or will it remain politics as usual?
King was assassinated because he threatened to unite left and white, white and black, poor and middle-class. The feds fear unity.
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In a triumph of the globalists, America has become again what she has not been in generations: a dependent nation. For the loss of our economic independence, we may thank the free-trade-uber-alles crowd. They tell us their high principles prevent them from saving the U.S. industries their policies are designed to kill. But, routinely, they loot our tax dollars to bail out their banker friends and foreign collaborators from Indonesia to Russia to Argentina.
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With the FBI warning of a 100 percent chance of terrorist attacks, with anthrax scares shutting down Congress, with daily calls to curtail civil liberties, questions arise: Are we more or less free and secure than when we began to build this "New World Order"? Are we better off now than we were before we ignored our founding fathers and decided to go abroad "in search of monsters to destroy"?
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With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the U.S. had a chance to dissolve old Cold War alliances and adopt an America First policy of non-intervention in wars that were none of our business. Instead, we launched the Gulf War, expanded NATO to Russia's border, went nation-building in Somalia, invaded Haiti, plunged into the Balkans, smashed Serbia and imposed sanctions that may have killed half a million Iraqis. Today, U.S. war commitments in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Gulf, Central Asia and the Taiwan Strait exceed those of Ronald Reagan. Yet, Mr. Bush has only half the Army, Navy and Air Force Mr. Reagan had. Never has America been so over-extended.
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by pat
pat has always been part of anti-globalization. that's why *some of us* (ahem) say anti-capitalism.
by blah
blah.
by yeah
Wait a second. You define your position in terms of whatever will allow you to place yourself apart from Buchannan? Oh sorry, silly me - I keep thinking that THE ISSUES ARE MORE IMPORTANT. But clearly not to you.

Yeah he's a racist - so what? He's ALSO an anti-globalist! Is that ALL you have to say? What is this, "Pat Buchannan - Love Him Or Leave Him"?

None of you get it. This is an opportunity to strengthen the anti-globalist movement! Imagine the headlines: "Radical left and radical right join forces; unite against trans-national corporate greed". Imagine the head counts that could be involved. Imagine the media attention it would draw - dress shirts and tie dye protesting together. Imagine the tremors of concern and division it would send through the conservatives!

But you can't. Or you won't. You discard the entire thing, on the basis that your mutual agendas do not completely overlap. Does that make any practical sense at all? Anti-globalists, anti-capitalists, anarchists, anarcho-capitalists, and surely many other divergent philosophies still stand side-by-side when there's a common cause.

I'm not suggesting you become the man's intern. But for Christ's sake, you won't even ACKNOWLEDGE your ideological common ground with the man!

You don't give a shit about your cause. It's an excuse! They rally around their flag, while you rally around yours. They mingle with their cultural peers, and you with yours. They refuse to listen to you, and you refuse to listen to them. And the FBI just sits back and laughs.
by anarchist
alright. well, let me tell you. i am all for the destruction of traditional right-wing models and left-wing models. that is the element of separation. flat out, i will not work with racists, and pat buchanan is one. i would say most left-leaning folks are not 'anti-globalization'. they oppose trade liberalisation. pat buchanan is truely an anti-globalist. pat buchanan is a fucking stupid politician, and he does NOT represent the bridge between "left" and "right" ... that bridge is found elsewhere. there are plenty of militias and socalled right-wing groups that anarchists should and do work with. but many of them, especially the protectionist anti-immigration crowd, are not to be trusted and i would not compromise my feelings about racism to work with them. period.
by wideboy
Buchanan isn't really ant-globalization as much as he is an ISOLATIONIST. It's semantics, really. Get your head out of the 19th century Pat.
And while I'm at... Fuck you! you racist prick.
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