Premise: Buchanan can't reconcile his lifelong anti-communism with the anti-interventionist philosophy that supposedly unites his book, so when it comes to the Cold War he carves out an absurd  The extreme evil of communism, he says, warranted military action in places as far-flung as Vietnam or as minuscule as Nicaragua.

Hypothesis: Buchanan views the communists as a threat even after the Cold War ended.
Relation: neutral