-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tuesday, October 17, 2000 Buchanan: Attack on Cole is act of war By Steven Bruss Green Bay Press-Gazette The United States should respond to the attack on the USS Cole as it would an act of war, Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said Monday. "We should run down the organizations and the sponsors, and we should make them pay a hellish price for the massacre of our sailors," said Buchanan during a wide-ranging, half-hour interview with the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Buchanan, a former member of the Republican Party and an adviser to presidents Nixon and Reagan, is running well behind the major-party candidates. Here is an edited text of his interview: Q. Why did you choose to join the reform party? A. The Republican Party at the national level has ceased to be my party. This divorce began around the end of the Cold War when President (George) Bush declared it to be a New World- order party and began intervening all over the world. While he and I were allies and friends during the Cold War, I just felt that once the Cold War was over the United States should return to a more traditional non-intervention foreign policy. Clearly the Republican Party is not that now. It (the GOP) is a global free-trade party, and I believe in economic patriotism -- putting the interest of American workers and their families and our economic independence first. They will not even discuss the immigration issue anymore, which I think is a very acute national issue. We have to have immigration reduced to 250,000 or 300,000 a year, legal immigrants, which is still very generous; emphasize the English language and start trying to pull this country back together; and we've got to get control of our southern border. So those are three great issues that I simply disagree with the Republican Party, which has moved off, I think frankly, and embraced really a Clintonite position. Q. How would you handle the attack on the USS Cole and the recent flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence? A. With the Cole, you lost a young man here in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and he had two weeks left to serve in a six-year stint, which was a tragedy . But he also was a victim of an act of war, and the United States should respond to the act of war against the Cole with its own act of war against those who did it. On the Middle East, the United States has a vital interest in preventing a war between Israel and the Palestinians because that would line Israel up against the entire Arab world. And if the United States is perceived as tilting wholly toward Israel, our interests in the Middle East would suffer dramatically. So we have to first prevent the war. Secondly, that requires a truce. And third, (we should) try to get some kind of negotiation back on track. But I have no illusions that's going to be easy after all this bloodshed and slaughter. Frankly, I think we need a more even-handed policy in the Middle East. The United States cannot be seen in the struggle between the Palestinians and Israelis over Palestinian statehood ... as a reflexive and uncritical and knee-jerk supporter of every single thing the Israelis do. We need a president who not only has the courage to condemn atrocities against the Israelis, but a president who has the courage to condemn the Israelis when they perpetrate outrages or stupidities. Q. How should the U.S. military be used? A. The Cold War is over. Bring the troops home from Europe, from Korea, from Japan, and rebuild and rearm and re-equip the American military here in the United States so that we can provide the strategic reserve of Western civilization and defend all of America's vital interests. One of the reasons the United States is the greatest nation on Earth is because unlike the rest of the great nations that entered the 20th century with us -- the British empire, the French, the German, the Austrian, the Ottoman empire, the Japanese and Russian empire -- we stayed out of all the great wars until their relatively conclusive phase. Q. You talk about promoting the English language. In Green Bay we have a significant Hispanic population that doesn't speak English. A. If they're here legally and they're citizens of this country, you don't coerce them, but I would emphasize at the state and local level to build education in the English language, and I would make sure that children right up there in kindergarten, first grade are dropped right into English so these kids can experience the great opportunities that are here in American society and that are closed off to people who don't know English. If you don't know English you're horribly restricted and confined in American society. So it is imperative that these kids be able in their younger years to understand and speak English because then ... America's world opens up to them. Q. Another big concern here is the affordability of prescription drugs. Do have a plan to address that? A. My view is first you make Medicare solvent and then we look at prescription drugs. Make sure the promises of Medicare to the older generation, the generation about to retire, are kept. Q. What is your plan to make Medicare solvent? A. The only answer on Social Security and Medicare must be bipartisan and anyone that tells you it's not going to be bipartisan is not telling you the truth. No single party is going to take responsibility for asking for sacrifices of any kind, and solvency is going to require some sacrifices. Q. Describe your tax plan. A. Very simple. I would take the $2 trillion in the surplus that is not Social Security or Medicare, I would add to that $1 trillion, which you can get from a 10 percent revenue tariff -- that's on imports coming into the United States. I would eliminate all taxes on small business with that $3 trillion. I would eliminate inheritance taxes, death taxes on the middle class, family farms and small businesses. I would produce three tax rates, a lowest rate of 10 percent, a second rate of 20 percent and a third rate of 30 percent, which would give us the lowest tax rates on earth, and I would exclude half of all capital gains from taxation. That would give us the most dramatic, dynamic, simplest, lowest tax rates in the Western industrial world, and foreign companies would start relocating factories here to get inside that small tariff, and U.S. companies would think twice before moving their mills and factories and plants abroad. Q. Earlier this year you said that Bush has been soft on the approval of RU-486. A. George (W.) Bush has gone into the tank on life. He will not outlaw RU-486, which you can do legislatively. He will not commit to appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. He won't talk about life, and his record on life is unconvincing. I would appoint only pro-life justices, only justices whom I knew in my heart or believed in my heart would overturn that abomination called Roe v. Wade, and George Bush won't say that. ---------- end --------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the Trail.... with Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster http://www.buchananreform.com/trail/trailmain.asp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Internet Brigade Headquarters http://www.buchanan.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BUCHANAN-FOSTER 2000 HQ 1-800-GO-PAT-GO http://www.buchananreform.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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