"Re-fried Comments" from the Taco Front
Buchanan calls for armed defense of southern border
By Web Today Analyst Todd Beezley
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 11, 2000 (WT)—IF Al Gore and "W" are this presidential season’s "salt and pepper," Pat Buchanan must be its Tabasco sauce.
During a recent Fox News interview on the O’Reilly Factor show, Buchanan came out with the flag flying and both six-guns blazing. The "would-be" 2000 candidate of the Reform Party called the Clinton administration "cowardly" or "frightened" in its handling of recent threats from the land of "frijoles" and the home of "Los Bravos."
Buchanan had the masculine glandular appendages to suggest that the U.S. station sufficient armed military forces on the border to prevent the recurrence of two recent international incidents, which have further muddied the already murky Rio Grande.
One of the incidents was thoroughly reported on this page. Acting to claim a massive reward posted by a Mexican drug cartel, units of the Mexican army were spotted more than a mile inside U.S. territory firing shots at an American border patrol agent. While the official organs of the U.S. government worked their best to hush up the incident, a government employees’ union revealed the escapade to the world and demanded a full investigation.
Also noted by Buchanan was the illegal seizure and prolonged detention of a United States Marine who was kidnapped from San Diego and held for two weeks against his will in a Mexican prison.
Buchanan referred to the U.S./Mexican boundary as a "bleeding border." And he wondered out loud why Bill Clinton hasn’t sought an explanation for the incidents from Mexico’s president.
Bolstering his call for permanent garrisons along the border, Buchanan pointed to the hemorrhaging horrors of heroin and cocaine crossing our borders unabated and the illegal flow of immigrants flaunting our laws and damaging our economy.
Last, but certainly not least, Buchanan blasted Mexico for conspiring with other major oil producers to withhold petroleum from the market and drive up prices. Again, he laid the blame for the lax American response directly at the doorstep of the politically distracted Clinton administration.
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