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Re: "Toward a More Moral Foreign Policy"
Date: December 17, 1999
To: Political Writers
Pat Buchanan gave me an early peek at the speech he wrote for
delivery today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS). It is not an ordinary, garden-variety speech. It is a Big one, one
that I believe will shake up the presidential campaign. That’s not to say
that it will shake things up so much that it will put Pat in the White
House, although when you think about it a little and imagine there might
be other such speeches down the line, it might do just that. It will make
each and every one of you realize that by breaking away from the
Republican Party, Pat has liberated himself from its paralyzing
paradigm. He is able to roam freely through the world of ideas and
ideologies and possibilities. The national electorate, which I believe is
becoming alarmed at the teenie-weenie candidates who are auditioning
for the job of King of the World, may Begin to Buzz at Buchanan’s Bolt
from the Blue. How is that for alliteration? I guarantee that most of you,
not all, will immediately see the new series of combinations and
permutations that will flow from this new ball in play. A clean slate. His
first act as President.... Lifting the economic sanctions we now impose
on 61 countries in the world. THE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS. On
Cuba. On Afghanistan. On Iraq. On Iran. On Sudan. On North Korea.
On Libya. Et cetera.
What will George W. say about this? Al Gore? Bill Bradley? John
McCain? You see what I mean, folks? Pat Buchanan is playing
Christmas with a Big Piñata, breaking it open with one big swing.
Political life suddenly will be much more interesting for political writers
who now have been reduced to splitting Scriptural hairs when writing
about the number of candidates who can dance on the head of a pin.
Jude Wanniski
Founder - Polyconomics, Inc.
Morristown, NJ
http://www.polyconomics.com/
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