Once again Pat Buchanan disappoints and angers me with his latest article where his usual claim is that the United States is trying desperately to find a reason to go to war with Iran.

There is one small problem with Buchanan’s’ premise. Iran is already at war with us. They have been at war with us since Jimmy Carter’s presidency. I imagine that many people who agree with Pat Buchanan have no sense of history since history in our public schools is a subject obviously not as important as teaching our kids liberal propaganda.

We already know that the Iranians or the Iranian Guard are supplying and have been supplying weapons to enemy forces in Iraq. But, now we have similar circumstances appearing in Afghanistan.

The following excerpt is taken from an article from csmonitor:

“Coalition officials in Afghanistan said they have intercepted Iranian-made AK-47s, C-4 plastic explosives and mortars. One explosively-formed perpetrator bomb (EFP) that was found can pierce American armor, a NATO official said.

The EFP is similar to the weaponry the United States says Iran has provided to militants in Iraq, but the NATO official said the weapon has not been traced directly to the Iranian regime.

Still, some experts believe that the Iranian government may be officially sanctioning the sale of weapons to the Taliban as a means of indirectly battling the US. "Iran's apparent shift in Afghanistan is part of a wider response by hard-liners, led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to what they consider U.S. efforts to destabilize the Islamic Republic," reports McClatchy.”

The British embassy yesterday told The Daily Telegraph: "Iran has publicly expressed its support for stability in Afghanistan and has a vested interest in supporting efforts against the Taliban. Any Iranian links to illegal armed groups either through supply of munitions, training or funding would be unacceptable."

However, one high-ranking Afghan government official said: "We are absolutely convinced that the Iranian intelligence service is providing support to the Taliban."

Iran's ambassador to Kabul, Mohammad Reza Bahrami, said: "Our belief is that a return of extremism to Afghanistan not only has a negative effect for Afghanistan but also for other countries in the region and beyond."

In his article, Buchanan cites numerous reputable and credible sources saying that the Iranians are supplying weapons to defeat us, yet he goes on to blame the US administration for propaganda by these same reputable people, including General Petraeus, as a cover for the Bush administration to “start” a war with Iran. Now, it sounds like Buchanan has likened Petraeus as another Colin Powell, a willing dupe to the Administration for making a case that Iran is at war with us. Just how many willing dupes does Buchanan think Bush has? Is he telling us all these fine military personnel are just a bunch of stupid and naive village idiots?

Buchanan’s article is a twisted and convoluted piece of propaganda itself. He doesn’t even make sense. First he cites the reports about Iran supplying weapons, then he goes on to say it’s all lies, just a front for starting a war with Iran.

Buchanan would not be so dangerous with his writings if he attracted no one to his articles, but plenty of moonbats engage in the same rhetoric and believe what Buchanan writes. I find this dismally depressing. There seems to be no end to anti-Semitism in some of the supporters of Buchanan. Then when they are called on it, their replies are that that is the usual card thrown at them. I don’t truly know if Buchanan is an anti Semite, but if nothing else he is naïve and an isolationist, which in today’s global world no longer works.

Here we are facing one of the greatest threats of our lifetime, nukes in the hands of Islamic fanatics and these same fanatics do not care who dies including themselves. It is not as if this is the cold war with the Soviet Union. This is a hot war.

Buchanan also excoriates Joe Lieberman and the other Republican presidential candidates who stated that they would not take the nuclear option off the table when dealing with Iran. Buchanan writes:

President Bush will then have his casus belli to take out Natanz and all the other Iranian nuclear facilities, as the Israelis and the neocons have been demanding that he d British and American special forces have intercepted a number of truckloads of weapons crossing the Iranian border into Nimroz province.

What does Buchanan expect? Would he prefer the US put ice cream cones on the table and invite the Mullahs for a nice Sunday ice cream social? Perhaps Israel should invite Ahmadinejad down for a nice bar mitzvah and let him see the fun that can be had with his enemies, the Israelis.

Buchanan grapples through all 23 paragraphs of his article, citing the dangers of the ME, the reports of Iranian weapons, the politicians, the military, NATO, and other credible sources all telling the same story, that Iran is destabilizing the entire ME. But, somehow Buchanan comes to the conclusion that the United States and the ever so reviled “neocons” are looking for anything to start a war with Iran. After reading his column I was left with one thought, “Huh?”

Mr. Buchanan has a big problem. He lacks credibility himself and by the way, where is his solution to the problem. I did not notice one throughout his entire column.

His only solution, if you can call it that, is “Where is the Congress? Why is it not holding public hearings and sifting the evidence to determine if Tehran is behind these attacks on Americans and if the United States has not itself been aiding insurgents inside Iran?”

Here is another premise that does not make sense. So what if we are supplying insurgents in Iran? Has that not been one of the actions supported to help the Iranians overthrow their government in the hopes of the Iranian Mullah led government falling? Has that not been one of the actions the politicians want to take in order to avoid our military having to fight in Iran? Would that not be one answer to the problem we face with Iran? I have heard this idea suggested and promoted even by some democrats.

Besides applying sanctions to Iran through the UN, the United States is financially strangling the Iranian government. We are working with the UN on the Iranian issue. In my humble opinion we are using all the methods available to us, including finally sitting down with the Iranians for “talks”. If anyone believes these talks are going to work, I would like to hear the reason why.

What if none of these actions work and Iran continues on its’ course of building nuclear bombs and destabilizing the ME? Just what does Pat Buchanan, in all his wisdom, suggest we do? Does he suggest we sit and wait until the world blows up? Does he prefer that Iran wipe Israel off the face of the map as Ahmadinejad has stated? How about when it becomes our turn to be wiped off the map? What will Pat Buchanan say then?