Re: Buckley throws in the towel on Iraq
Michael Pollak wrote:
I thought Buckley never saw himself as a neocon, and saw himself as closer to the paleocons — who, led by Buchanan and Taki at The American Conservative, were always against this war.
Buckley was always able to straddle the fault lines of American conservatism - he was able to be traditionalist & libertarian, reactionary Catholic and Market Man, all at once. It never made any sense intellectually but his charm managed to get him through.
Doug