Americans should stop demonising the Iranian President

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Former Nixon-Reagan aide Pat Buchanan, in his Creators Syndicate column, on hatred of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

WHAT is it about this tiny man that induces such irrationality? Answer: He is President of a nation that is a “state sponsor of terror”, that is seeking nuclear weapons and is moving munitions to the Taliban and insurgents in Iraq.  But Libya was a state sponsor of terror, and Muammar Gaddafi was responsible for Pan Am 103, the Lockerbie massacre of school kids coming home for Christmas. And George W. Bush secretly negotiated a renewal of relations in return for Gaddafi giving up his nuclear program and compensating the families of (Lockerbie’s) victims.

Richard Nixon went to Beijing to toast Mao Zedong, the greatest mass murderer in history, responsible for the deaths of 37,000 Americans in Korea who was, in 1972, persecuting and murdering dissidents in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution run by his crazed wife and trans-shipping Russian weapons into Vietnam. And Nixon is today hailed as a statesman for having gone there…