If American troops in S.Korea at least guaranteed a trade surplus for America with S.Korea that could be useful....but the reality is that besides spending $billions every year in S.Korean troops, it is S.Korea the one which has a trade surplus with America and continues improving while the U.S. only gets more debt in return. So America gets nothing from S.Korea, the same as happened with Japan which was like a parasit of the U.S. economy. Of course, the U.S. gets Allies if there is a War against China...but what would be the reason why a country so far away from Asia as the U.S. should start a large military attack against China? If there is no reason for that, then there is no reason for dozens of thousands of U.S. troops encircling China from S.Korea, Japan, Guam and Afghanistan plus support in the Philipines, Taiwan and Australia.

Pat Buchanan: "The absurdity of the present situation is that “We are borrowing from the world to keep troops all over the world defending the world..." Once a nation is flushed down the toilet, there is nothing to prevent it from entering the sewer. That is the fate of America "the Beautiful".

I do not agree with Pat Buchanan about "America is basically approaching bankruptcy". The disagreement is about the tense used. I mean, insted of the Present Continious Tense of "to approach", I find the Present Perfect a more suitable verb form: "America has already approached bunkruptcy". Here is why the war on Iran would be good for America: Not because it will cure America's economy, but because it will help Americans that, at least for a while, they could turn their thoughts to something different than their buncruptcy. However, this psyhotherapy will not last for long. It is too late even for such a clever and honest guy as Ron Paul to take control in USA and make it out of the mess.

A war with Iran will not stay in Iran. The American people have never expeienced the effects of a modern war on their own soil which has allowed them to take such a casual attitude to visiting war upon other nations. If they had suffered on thier own soil they would be less inclined to visit war upon others. A war with Iran would be unlikely to change this - Iran cannot carpet bomb US cities or launch nuclear weapons against ports and military facilities like the US would do to Iran, however Iran can and will hit back. Yes, Iran as a developed nation could be decimated by US weapons, but the USA will find its expeditionary capacity quickly and effectively curtailed. Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan would quickly become killing fields for US personnel, and resupply ships would be harrased by small boats carrying hypersonic anti-shipping missiles launched from bases as far afield as Yemen and Somalia. The Israel lobby would also be wise to stop pushing for war too. Once Israel have hit Iran with their nuclear weopons and killed millions of Muslims, do they honestly expect the Iranian surviors and thier allies to just walk away? No they will reap a firestorm too. Truely, we live in the most dangerous of times, a time when just a few men can decide the fate of millions, and when millions can be wiped out by simply pressing a few buttons and then sitting back and watching on a TV screen hundreds, often thousands of miles away.

just bluffing can anyone say they are fighting with whom in the iraq, afghanistan ,.. they cant start a real war they have tasted conflict with iran since 30 years ago when they help saddam for 8 years real conflict with iran they are not even able to calm hammas and hezbolla so where is belladan anyway if this occure all europe will starve to death oil will boost up to unknown price.

As an American, I get to watch and listen to how the people of this country feel. And how is that? Well, they don't. For years the people of this country have been subdued into docile consumers, tempted with the proverbial good life which is either constantly just out of grasp or only attainable through massive debt. As they work towards this inconceivable and utterly ridiculous dream they labor away under the thumb of a Federal Corporation that taxes us, regulates us and generally enslaves us under the guise of Democracy. The people of this country have sunken into such a deep pit of apathy and the only thing that can bring America back to any semblance of the country it was founded to be is another revolution.

Look... I reside in America, in the south and I can tell you that inflation has occured already. A hundred dollars cannot feed two adults for one week anylonger. Politicans can run thier mouths nonstop and nothing will change. We need action, not words. What can a wealthy white actually know of the poor? And thier struggle? He still sips his cognac, smokes his Cohiba's and turns the lights off in multi-million dollar home, what does he know?

FACT IS ---Buchanan CAN'T be trusted to read the Far Eastern situation. US troops remain in South Korea BECAUSE the war NEVER ended. One side NEVER lost. North Korea remains militantly committed to dominating the penninsula. North Korea, while playing host to unspeakable social engineering purges of its population ---ALSO remains very much the client state creation of the Red Chinese. FACT Red China would be directly threatened by a prosperous, open and free Korea on its border. The communist regime's very existence would be in danger ---and small matters like the --MOST-- gargantuan legacy of political genocide in all human history --would have to be confronted. We're afraid 'populist' Pat, who is forever downsizing and even lying about these issues ---is still very much in the pocket of Skull and Bones, 'Grand Daddy made the family fortune in Chinese opium' --enmeshment, guilt, denial, enabling --idealistic 'realism' ---a la Nixon and Kissinger --Luce, Bundy -Delano -Roosevelt et al. And BTW --are we the only ones noticing that while we're treated to still another batch of PC WWII retreads ---the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War was once again 'mysteriously overlooked'? AGAIN ---Buchanan CAN'T be trusted to read these issues ----pass it on!

The consumerism is destroying US.  The very character of people has been altered.  Average American is tech savvy,  but has become as dumb as a brick.  Just getting gadgets to waste their time with, and innured in the pleasures of dumb media --- getting dumber by the day. 

And these are the very people that are one pay check from the street, but think that some OTHERS are milking the system, and therefore, neither capable nor willing to understand anything at all. 

Then there are those who have the misfortune to think.  It is a lonely existence out there.  But for those that are enjoying their Borg existence, life is good in blissfull conformity.  But once Borg looses the centrally issued message,  what will the Borg do?  Helplessly wonder about like children with nobody to take care of them?  Or turn into savages, unable to cooperate or collaborate with others?  

Not much good can come out of this, no matter what the paleo-Buchanan thinks.