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Article: Buchanan didn't trash democracy, he attacked a new form of imperialism.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1996
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I was shocked by the maliciousness of Ben Wattenberg's Feb. 29 column, "Tracing Pat's paper trail on democracy." In it, Mr. Wattenberg calls Pat Buchanan a "democracy trasher," based on a column Mr. Buchanan wrote in 1989.
I couldn't quite believe this, so I looked it up and found that the truth is quite different. Mr. Wattenberg dishonestly uses selective quotes to smear Mr. Buchanan as someone who prefers dictatorship to American democracy.
Mr. Buchanan didn't "trash" democracy in that column at all. What he did was criticize Mr. Wattenberg and others for looking for new fights to get America into after the Soviet collapse, in the name of ...