Pat Buchanan would be a fine spokesman for realism and non-intervention in US foreign policy, but for . . .

Our Foreign Policy Once Made Sense

. . . his bland refusal to see that not only were the two world wars no business of ours, but so was the cold war.

Still, his main point is right.

Trying to make the world safe for democracy is a fool’s errand and a waste of blood and treasure.

Unless, of course, it’s our own democracy whose safety is at stake, and it’s not.

PS.

His party, of course, these days is even more interventionist and adventurist than the Democrats, as he has repeatedly written, himself.

He was not shy in pointing out, when it mattered, that both McCain and Romney were more bellicose than Obama and the neocons were and are stronger in the Republican Party than among the Democrats.

There is no liberal analogue to The National Review, utterly devoted to "American exceptionalism" and the endless wars it calls for, according to them.

Or The Weekly Standard, which takes the same silly view.