When Buchanan speaks the comments quickly turn anti or pro Israel. The subject isn’t Israel. It’s the US and whether we should get involved in a civil war which we cannot control and in which there are no vital US interests which we can significantly influence, let alone control. He’s advising caution and using the Spanish civil war as an example. A reasonable commentary on both civil wars.
"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain.
Observing the uprising in Syria, the atrocities, the intervention by rival powers, it all calls to mind the Great Rehearsal for World War II, the Spanish Civil War.
The war began in 1936 with an uprising in Morocco of Spanish Nationalists against a Madrid regime seen as anti-Catholic, Marxist and Trotskyite. Vladimir Lenin had predicted that Spain would be the second Soviet republic in Europe.
The war would last three years, with Joseph Stalin providing aid to the regime, Benito Mussolini sending troops to fight...
"Entangling alliances" includes Israel.
Are you aware that no less than Bill Kristol called Obama a neocon over the Libyan fiasco, right? I thought so, absolutely clueless. This happens when you get all your "news" and opinions shaped for you by low IQ talk radio and cable tv.