An informative op-ed piece. Mr Buchanan normally causes me to switch channels, but I'm glad I found this article on NewsTrust. Only goes to show that I don't have to like people to learn from them.

In this remarkable opinion column, conservative Buchanan uses the public words of the neo-conservative war supporters who urged war on Iraq against them. Specifically, he shows the members of what he calls the "war party" choosing to blame the president's incompetence for the American failure in Iraq rather than taking responsibility for their own policy. This is an argumentative and polemical column, but a fair one based on effective use of quotation.

Noted isolationist Pat Buchannan, himself otherwise a cheerleader for Bush's support of imposing religion on state programs, enjoys a bit of "I told you so" revenge on the public failure of Bush's Iraq policy. Here he chronicles the flop side of the neo-cons flip-flop, without much analysis, preferring to let most readers deduce the rank hiprocracy of the neo-con's failure to assume responsibility for a position which, after all, they had worked 30 years to develop and carry out. The real failure of strategy, as outlined by H.R. McMaster in the book Dereliction of Duty, came at the moment the president decided to ignore the professional advice of US generals for a build-up of several hundred thousand troops. Buchannan, as ... More »

This is more of an op-ed piece than news. As op-ed content, it expresses a viewpoint. Because it describes erosioin of support for G. W. Bush's incursion into Iraq, the view expressed is one that many people opposed to war will like.