A conservative round the bend. Where is Pat Buchanan going with this?

Vladimir Putin, Christian Crusader?

Read it.

I don’t know why he bothers with the question mark.

Or maybe the editors forced it on him.

As I commented there,

Before there was Pat the anti-interventionist there was Pat the globo-Cold Warrior.

It looks like after Pat the anti-interventionist there is emerging Pat the globo-Christian Culture Warrior.

And race warrior, too, I suppose we might as well say.

I  went on,

Once a globo-warrior, always a globo-warrior.

For years he has been (metaphorically) at war with the emerging secularism of American law and culture, a development that would be impossible without broad support from Christian believers who don’t want the morals of their clergy imposed on them by law.

For years he has regarded Islam as the enemy of both Christianity and Judaism in another culture war.

Looks like he’ll be taking on the Buddhists, Hindus, and animists of the world, next.

And for the sake of his role as Knight of the Christian Right he has now gone into opposition, Culture War, against his own country, siding with yesterday’s enemy, Russia.

Right along with the so-called “World Congress of Families.”

Perhaps we should require that students in all our schools recite daily, as if a morning prayer, the full text of Shelley’s Ozymandias.

I met a traveler from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away".