Pat Buchanan is symptomatic of how politics in general, and the war system in particular, contribute to the corruption of clear thinking. George Orwell – among others – described that process for us many decades ago. Pat recently defended the reported practice, by the Pentagon, of paying Iraqi newspapers to run U.S. government versions of the war – as well as paying Iraqi journalists to write stories from a U.S. perspective. In his view: “deception, misinformation, disinformation, deceit, propaganda – these are all instruments of war.” I have long been amazed at how otherwise decent people can allow their thinking … Continue reading On Standing Pat