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**Twendypreency** · 02-21-2011, 10:40 PM

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Ideology vs. the National Interest
Patrick J. Buchanan

... In our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made himself a dictator, closing newspapers, suspending habeas corpus, and locking up editors and legislators. Woodrow Wilson went to war to "to make the world safe for democracy" alongside five of the most rapacious empires on earth: the British, French, Russian, Italian and Japanese. During World War II, our ally that did most of the fighting and dying was the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin ... If the advancement of our democratic ideals imperils what the U.S. government says are our vital interests, is there not something fundamentally wrong with our Middle East policy?

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02-21-2011, 10:40 PM	#1
Twendypreency Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	Ideology vs. the National Interest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ideology vs. the National Interest Patrick J. Buchanan ... In our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made himself a dictator, closing newspapers, suspending habeas corpus, and locking up editors and legislators. Woodrow Wilson went to war to "to make the world safe for democracy" alongside five of the most rapacious empires on earth: the British, French, Russian, Italian and Japanese. During World War II, our ally that did most of the fighting and dying was the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin ... If the advancement of our democratic ideals imperils what the U.S. government says are our vital interests, is there not something fundamentally wrong with our Middle East policy? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-...-11-02-08.html
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