Buchanan goes crazy

I generally find Pat Buchanan an intelligent author and speaker. However, in this WND article, I think he's completely lost his mind.

On one hand, he's admitting that Iran's thug in chief is dangerous.

"Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who says Israel should be "wiped off the map" and the Holocaust is a myth, is still on message. On New Year's Day, he charged Europeans with setting up a "Jewish camp" in the Middle East, with the most sinister of motives.
"Don't you think that continuation of genocide by expelling Jews from Europe was one of their aims in creating a regime of occupiers of Al Quds [Jerusalem]?" Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iran's official Islamic Republic News. "Isn't that an important question?" "

But on the other hand, all he wants us to do is "talk" with the thug. Right. Hitler was an easy guy to rationalize with right Mr. Chamberlain?

Pat goes on to try and rationalize the point that since Iran has signed the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty that they will, more importantly, abide by said treaty:

"Tehran is telling Bush: We are not going to be the only country on earth to have signed the NPT and then be told by you we cannot exercise our rights under the treaty. "

How many treaties did Hitler sign swearing he wouldn't build his military forces in the 1930s? How many treaties did Hitler sign swearing that, no really, all he really wanted was the Sudatenland?

Buchanan then jumps fully into the Sheehan camp by using the same exact rhetoric they used to argue against taking out Iraq:

"As of today, Iran is not a nuclear threat."

Ok, let me get this right. Today, Iran is not a nuclear threat. What about next year? In 5 years? 10? You do the math. Would you rather take on a nuclear Iran, or one that has had its nuclear capability removed? Which one do you think would be more expensive in both lives and money? Because if you think that a nuclear Iran would NOT be a threat to the United States, I've got a bridge for you to buy in Brooklyn.

He further buries himself in the weakness of his position by saying essentially, yeah, so even if Iran can build ONE nuclear bomb, they've only got ONE and we've got thousands. How many EMP bursts would it take to severely damage our country Mr. Buchanan? How many nuclear bombs launched off an oil tanker would it take to destroy Washington DC? Houston? New York? LA? You think that Katrina damaged our economy?

Why do you think we're so concerned over the fact that Iran is building a nuclear bomb, but for some reason, a nuclear Pakistan and India don't seem to bother us? Could it be that Pakistan and India don't go about calling the United States the Great Satan? Could it be that neither country is ruled by a thug? Could it be that neither country is stating they want to wipe an important ally of ours off the map?

I don't know what the answer is. But giving concessions to the Iranians for being punks is the wrong move.