Pat Buchanan is on the side of the angels, and I have a lot of respect for him, but he has a surprisingly short memory. In the course of arguing against going to war with Iran he says that:
None of this is written in defense of Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran. But none of them has attacked our country....
Let's refresh his memory for him with a list of Hezbollah's attacks against the U.S. over the last twenty years or so:
- Car bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut killing 241 U.S. servicemen (1983)
- Car bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut killing 63 people, including 17 Americans (1983)
- Bombing outside U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut killing 24 (1984)
- Hijacking of TWA Flight 847 killing one U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem (1985)
- Abduction, torture and death of CIA Station Chief William Buckley in Lebanon (1985)
- Bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia killing 19 U.S. servicemen (1996)
See Michelle Malkin for more on Hezbollah as a threat to the U.S.
How many Americans does Hezbollah have to kill before Pat is convinced that if we are not at war with Hezbollah they are certainly at war with us?