Buchanan: A Pox on ‘Pax Americana’

Re “U.S. Pays the High Price of Empire,” Commentary, Sept. 18:

I don’t usually agree with Pat Buchanan, but I do agree with his analysis in this situation. Our government shouldn’t act on rage and impulse and kill innocents as the hijackers did, which may result in more retaliation. We, the American public, have to act calmly in these times and encourage the policymakers to act wisely. I refuse to become, or allow our young soldiers to become, a potential target for terrorists because our policymakers are too busy trying to enforce Pax Americana across the world and appease the defense contractors (whose stocks, incidentally, jumped while almost all others fell in anticipation of war).

Todd Rizvi

Los Angeles

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According to Buchanan, “Interventionism is the incubator of terrorism,” and the only people we have to fear in our nation are all those “undocumented aliens.” If we bury ourselves in a cozy shell of isolationism, then all our problems will go away. And to think this guy ran for president three times and millions of people voted for him.

Ralph S. Brax

Lancaster

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Buchanan asked how many undocumented immigrants are ready to carry out attacks.

It seems that Buchanan is referring to some attack somewhere that I am not aware of. Please let the world and myself know where it happened. From the facts that have been reported in the news on the recent terrorist activity in the U.S., one came from a white middle-class man born in the U.S. This was the Oklahoma massacre. The other apparently was a group of foreign students who were here legally and living in affluent neighborhoods. Not much different than the one I am sure Buchanan lives in.

How Buchanan has made the connection from a group of hard-working people (undocumented immigrants) perhaps out picking lettuce or washing his car to a cold-blooded set of massacres is truly beyond my limited intelligence. So please forgive my ignorance when I ask that he explain.

Antonio Hernandez

Baldwin Park