Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan (2008)

Buchanan as a White House employee in 1969

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan [ bjuːˈkænən ] (born November 2, 1938 in Washington, DC ) is a conservative American politician , journalist and television commentator .

Life

Patrick Buchanan is a son of Irish immigrants and has both German, English and Irish Scottish ancestors. He is a Catholic , a follower of the traditional liturgy , since 1971 with Shelley Ann, b. Scarney, married with no children.

Buchanan was director of communications at the White House under Ronald Reagan and later ran several times himself as a candidate for the office of US president , most recently in 2000 for the Reform Party . His former party, the Republicans , never erected it; in the primary elections for the presidential candidacy he was able to achieve multiple successes.

Buchanan takes the view , especially in his book Churchill, Hitler and the unnecessary war , that the two world wars were brought about negligently and unnecessarily by Anglo-Saxon politics and, primarily at the instigation of Winston Churchill, to considerable violations of international law and war crimes, including by the British and the US -Americans led (in the First World War hunger blockade beyond 1918, in the Second World War mass bombings of the civilian population). In view of this historical perspective, he calls for more restraint in armed conflicts for current US foreign policy. He considers the Iraq war to be stupid by ex-President George W. Bush and is an opponent of NATO expansion to the east and military support obligations to countries in the immediate sphere of influence of Russia .

Buchanan believes the Republican Party has broken with its own conservative principles. Since his political perspective differs significantly from mainstream conservatism, he is sometimes referred to as a " paleo-conservative ". He described AIDS as "nature's retribution for unnatural acts" by homosexuals.

Buchanan is a Knight of the Order of Malta and co-founder of The American Conservative magazine .

Fonts

• Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? , 2011, ISBN 0-312-57997-7
• Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War". How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (2008) ISBN 0-307-40515-X ;
  • German: Churchill, Hitler and the unnecessary war. How Britain gambled away its empire and the West gambled away the world. Pour le Mérite Verlag , Selent 2008, ISBN 978-3-932381-50-8 .
• Day of Reckoning. How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart . 2007, ISBN 0-312-37696-0 .
• State of Emergency. The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America . 2006, ISBN 0-312-36003-7 .
  • The wrong path to immigration: the white world on the brink . Bonus-Verlag , Selent 2007, ISBN 978-3-935962-08-7 .
• Where the Right Went Wrong. How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency . 2004, ISBN 0-312-34115-6 .
• The Death of the West. How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization . 2001, ISBN 0-312-28548-5 .
  • German: The death of the West. Birth loss and mass immigration threaten our civilization . Pour le Mérite Verlag , Selent 2002, ISBN 3-935962-04-5 .
• A Republic, Not an Empire. Reclaiming America's Destiny . 1999, ISBN 0-89526-272-X .
• The Great Betrayal. How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy . 1998, ISBN 0-316-11518-5 .
• Right from the beginning . 1988, ISBN 0-316-11408-1 .
• Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories. Why the Right Has Failed . 1975, ISBN 0-8129-0582-2 .
• The New Majority. President Nixon at Mid-Passage . 1973

Web links

Commons : Pat Buchanan  - collection of images

• Literature by and about Pat Buchanan in the catalog of the German National Library
• The American Cause
• The American Conservative magazine
• Buchanan's official website
• Pat Buchanan in the nndb (English)
• Pat Buchanan's Skeleton Closet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nixon's Revenge , July 29, 1985 article on Spiegel Online
2. ↑ Money without Charisma , article from February 19, 1996 on Spiegel Online
3. ↑ Hitler? Harmless! , Article from May 17, 2010 by Franziska Augstein on süddeutsche.de
4. ↑ Conservative Holzwege , article from November 17, 2004 by Alfred de Zayas on FAZ.NET
5. ↑ Pat Buchanan: In His Own Words ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Anti-Defamation League website