William F. Buckley, RIP

[Etta Place]

And more about Buckley's disagreement with the neocons.

While Buckley drew a legion of followers, he remained independent of the movement he helped create. He favored legalizing illicit drugs at a time when the U.S. had declared a ``War on Drugs,'' and in a Feb. 24, 2006, column called for President Bush to acknowledge defeat in the war in Iraq.

In the 1970s, he sided with President Jimmy Carter on his plan to hand the Panama Canal back to Panama. He also lamented opposing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and, in a further criticism of the second President Bush, warned of the foreign-policy entanglements of so-called neoconservatives:

``The neoconservative hubris, which sort of assigns to America some kind of geo-strategic responsibility for maximizing democracy, overstretches the resources of a free country.''

Bloomberg.com: U.S.#

[Frenchy]

``The neoconservative hubris, which sort of assigns to America some kind of geo-strategic responsibility for maximizing democracy, overstretches the resources of a free country.''

Truer words were never spoken.

[Etta Place]

Originally Posted by Frenchy

Truer words were never spoken.

You said it! We need to combine Buckley's message with the info about the Federal Reserve that Ron Paul is sounding the alarm about to pull this country back from the brink.