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Unfortunately in the op's Pat Buchanan 'BFF' town hall speech - good ole Pat leaves out his participation in US administrations interventions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

From Buchanans post in the Nixon white house Pat Buchanan painted a rosy picture of the Nixon, strategy to 'end the Vietnam War with a peace with honor ',...

In retrospect Pat Buchanan as a member of the Nixon inner circle was witness to the prolonged extension of the war with no change to what the US would finally acheive if it had settled years earlier at the Paris Peace Talks for what it finally recieved. So much for peace or honor.

The Vietnam War with the Nixon adminstration at the helm with Pat Buchanan right there at the center cheerleading. Grinded on without a 'hic up' from Pat Buchanan.

Fast forward to Pat Buchanan serving with US Pres. Ronald Reagan. Pat Buchanan served as White House Communications Director from 1985 to 1987. To help garner opposition to Nicaragua's Sandinista government and support of the opposing rebels he coined the phrase " I'm a contra too ".
Translation the contras were a bunch of murderous thieves and drug smugglers on the payroll of US covert operations to destabilize the duly democratically elected government of Nicaragua.
see Iran Contra Affair
From What Uncle Sam Really Wants, by Noam Chomsky.