General Douglas MacArthur, born in 1880, died when Pat Buchanan was in college.
Buchanan is now 83.
Yet, like an undergrad debate team hack, he twists the context of MacArthur’s and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s quotes to fit his argument n his May 3 column in the Peninsula Daily News.
Could Austin’s desire to reduce the capacity to regain the strength to attack Ukraine refer to protecting civilians from further slaughter or reigning in the danger to our NATO allies?
We do not know.
Buchanan’s barrage of illogic shows how little he knows.
The free world does not force Russia to continue her aggression.
Russia makes that choice.
Russia’s loss of its soldiers and the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians is on her own head, not ours.
It’s Russia’s own squandering of military resources that weakens her.
Russia’s nuclear blackmail of the world shows its intentions and warns us that this is not a tea party with the matriarch.
Finally, invoking Mother Russia is cynical.
Mothers, even mythical ones, should not provoke war.
Pamela S. Hunter
Forks