Buchanan, you and your op/eds are seriously misplaced; you belong on Huffington Post...
Is it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East?
In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an "Arab Spring" that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Gadhafi.
Yet this week U.S. embassies were under siege in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and U.S. diplomats were massacred in Benghazi.
The cost of our two wars is 6,500 dead, 40,000...
Elihu is angry that he can't refute either Buchanan or his admirers here because he simply doesn't have the grey matter to make the effort. HuffPo would work or the main blog here. There's a nice food fight on the Krauthammer thread. This jerk would fit right in.