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Pat Buchanan
Distant Drums At Sarah's Party
Pat Buchanan 9/5/2008
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The American Right has just died and gone to heaven.

Last night's convention address by Sarah Palin here in St. Paul has confirmed the bold decision of John McCain to choose the Alaska governor as his co-pilot and united the Republican Party as it has not been since the second term of Ronald Reagan.

A wild enthusiasm for Sarah Palin has brought conservatives home to John McCain, and GOP leaders of all hues — from Fred Thompson to Mitt Romney to Mike Huckabee to Rudy Giuliani — to the rostrum to lacerate the liberal media for their five days of feral assaults on Sister Sarah.

The war the right lives for, against the people the right truly loathes — the liberal media elite who savagely "Bork" every true conservative who gets on the path to national power — has been reignited.

Positive polarization has been achieved. The Republican Party has been united and invigorated. The enthusiasm gap with the Democratic ticket has been closed. And the issues upon which the base loves to fight — the Culture War and Right to Life — are back on the table.

Palin's beautifully crafted and delivered acceptance speech, after Rudy's gleeful excoriations of the pretensions of Obama, will rank
as a night to remember in convention history.

Yet, as the familiar battle lines form up for the delicious eight-week war that lies ahead, one hears a distant thunder. And the seriousness of the hour we are in comes home.

U.S. troops have crossed into Pakistan to attack Taliban and al-Qaida units in the privileged sanctuary of the tribal areas just across the border from Afghanistan. Have we just thrown a rock into the biggest hornet's nest on earth?

How will the Pakistani government and people react to this U.S. incursion into their country to fight a war their own army has been reluctant to wage? How will the tribal peoples react? Will the weak new democratic regime, united only in its hatred of deposed President Musharraf, fall?

What is the future of this Islamic nation of 170 million, with its five-dozen nuclear weapons, that was once America's great ally in South Asia, but is now seething with anti-Americanism?

In Afghanistan, the Taliban move closer to the capital Kabul as hardly a day goes by without U.S. armed forces being charged with the accidental killing of Afghan women and children. Is this even a winnable war, after seven years of fighting? And, if so, at what cost?

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Posted By: Jonathan Colb  on Monday, September 08, 2008

Is there really any doubt that a Palin/McCain victory will result in continued carnage on Earth?

But maybe they have enough political cover to make up for their belligerent worldview: after all, they pay lip service to responsible taxation, and they are really hostile towards reproductive rights, reasonable gun control and intellectual freedom.

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