-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- US Politics Buchanan Attacks US Foreign Policy A bombing run a day, keeps Osama Bin Laden away. SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) -- Reform Party presidential contender Pat Buchanan said Friday that elitists in the Democratic and Republican parties have crafted a ''neo-imperial foreign policy'' of U.S. intervention in conflicts around the world even when American interests are harmed. The former Republican, in language reminiscent of the isolationist movement prior to World War II, said his party could serve as ''a peace party'' working to keep America out of ''the religious, ethnic and territorial wars of less fortunate lands.'' The United States risks becoming ''a policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle,'' Buchanan said in remarks prepared for an antiwar conference sponsored by the Center for Libertarian Studies. The Reform Party ''will become a noninterventionist party, a peace party, that will reach out to Americans of right and left who reject the Third Way imperialism,'' Buchanan said. ''Only an engaged and informed citizenry can bring about a reversal of the neo-imperial foreign policy that has been foisted upon us in the post-Cold War era by the elites of both Beltway parties.'' Buchanan attacked the foreign policy credentials of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the presumptive Republican nominee. ''The governor has exhibited neither absorbing interest nor extraordinary aptitude for foreign policy -- to put it generously,'' he said. Buchanan also criticized Vice President Al Gore, the presumptive Democratic party presidential nominee, for advocating Clinton administration airstrikes against nations such as Iraq and Serbia and hits on alleged terrorists operations in Sudan in recent years. Gore ''exhibits a New Republic-style lust for cruise missile strikes on rogue nations,'' Buchanan said, adding that U.S. sanctions, military strikes and intervention have prompted ''a seething resentment of America'' around the world. Buchanan drew the strongest applause of his speech when he said that if elected, he would pull all U.S. troops out of the ''Balkan quagmire'' by the end of his first year in office and remove American soldiers from Europe by the end of his first term. In remarks after his address, Buchanan said the West should not ''walk away'' from the situation in Kosovo, but instead should get its European allies to police the region. In the Middle East, U.S. troops ''stand ready to die'' to defend Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from Iran and Iraq even though the four countries are conspiring to keep oil prices high and ''gouge U.S. consumers,'' he said. The Associated Press, March 25, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
